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<h1>Heteronym</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het"er*o*nym</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to <i>homonym</i>.</def>

<h1>Heteronymous</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*on"y*mous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hetero-</ets> + Gr. <grk>"o`nyma</grk>, for <grk>"o`noma</grk> a name.]</ety> <def>Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations.</def>

<i>J. Le Conte.</i>

-- <wordforms><wf>Het"er*on"y*mous*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Heteroousian</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*o*ou`si*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hetero-</ets> + Gr. <?/ being, essence.]</ety> <def>Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.</def>

<h1>Heteroousian</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*o*ou"si*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.</def>

<h1>Heteroousious</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*o*ou"si*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>See <er>Heteroousian</er>.</def>

<h1>Heteropathic</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*o*path"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hetero-</ets> + Gr. <?/ suffering, fr. <?/, <?/, to suffer.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic.</def>

<h1>Heteropathy</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*op"a*thy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Heteropathic</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.</def>

<h1>Heteropelmous</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*o*pel"mous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hetero-</ets> + Gr. <?/ the sole of the foot.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes. See <i>Illust</i>. in Append.</def>

<h1>Heterophagi</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`e*roph"a*gi</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ other + <?/ to eat.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Altrices.</def>

<h1>Heterophemist</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*oph"e*mist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One liable to the fault of heterophemy.</def>

<h1>Heterophemy</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*oph"e*my</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hetero-</ets> + Gr. <?/ voice, speech, fr. <?/ to speak.]</ety> <def>The unconscious saying, in speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; -- frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness.</def><-- Freudian slip -->

<i>R. G. White.</i>

<h1>Heterophony</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*oph"o*ny</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hetero-</ets> + Gr. <?/ voice.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>An abnormal state of the voice.</def>

<i>Mayne.</i>

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