a. and sb. Obs. rare. [a. Fr. anomal, ad. L. anōmal-us, a. Gr. ἀνώμαλ-ος irregular, uneven; f. ἀν priv. + ὁμαλ-ός even.]
A. adj. Irregular, anomalous.
1681. trans. T. Willis’ Rem. Med. Wks., Anomal, Irregular, out of order.
B. sb. Anything anomalous; an anomaly.
1569. J. Sanford, trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, 107. Whiche thinges because they haue neither measure, nor rule, are called Anomals.
[1620. Reliq. Wotton. (1672), 261. Irregularitives of Fortune, who hath likewise her Anomola.]
1665. J. Spencer, Prodigies, 131. A more faithful History of the Anomals in Nature.
