a. (UN-1 7.)

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1755.  Johnson, Disproportionate, unsymmetrical.

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1816.  R. Jameson, Char. Min. (ed. 2), 207. A Crystal is said to be … Unsymmetrical, when two ranges of facets situated one above another, on each extremity, exhibit a want of symmetry.

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1830.  Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 141. An imbricated calyx with … unsymmetrical flowers, definite pendulous ovules.

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1893.  Tucky, Amphioxus, 119. This is an unsymmetrical movement of the mesoblastic somites.

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  Hence Unsymmetrically adv.

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1755.  Johnson, Disproportionately, unsuitably, unsymmetrically.

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1839–47.  Todd’s Cycl. Anat., III. 603/1. These ganglia are disposed unsymmetrically throughout the body.

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1879.  Spencer, Data of Ethics, i. § 1. 4. The unsymmetrically-pierced disk of an eccentric.

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