Heteronomy
(Het`er*on"o*my) n.

1. Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; — opposed to autonomy.

2. (Metaph.) A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires. Krauth- Fleming.

Heteronym
(Het"er*o*nym) n. That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; — opposed to homonym.

Heteronymous
(Het`er*on"y*mous) a. [Hetero- + Gr. "o`nyma, for "o`noma a name.] Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations. J. Le Conte.

Het"er*on"y*mous*ly, adv.

Heteroousian
(Het`er*o*ou`si*an) a. [Hetero- + Gr. being, essence.] Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.

Heteroousian
(Het`er*o*ou"si*an) n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.

Heteroousious
(Het`er*o*ou"si*ous) a. See Heteroousian.

Heteropathic
(Het`er*o*path"ic) a. [Hetero- + Gr. suffering, fr. to suffer.] Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic.

Heteropathy
(Het`er*op"a*thy) n. [See Heteropathic.] (Med.) That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.

Heteropelmous
(Het`er*o*pel"mous) a. [Hetero- + Gr. the sole of the foot.] (Anat.) 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 Illust. in Append.

Heterophagi
(||Het`e*roph"a*gi) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. other + to eat.] (Zoöl.) Altrices.

Heterophemist
(Het`er*oph"e*mist) n. One liable to the fault of heterophemy.

Heterophemy
(Het`er*oph"e*my) n. [Hetero- + Gr. voice, speech, fr. to speak.] 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. R. G. White.

Heterophony
(Het`er*oph"o*ny) n. [Hetero- + Gr. voice.] (Med.) An abnormal state of the voice. Mayne.

Heterophyllous
(Het`er*oph"yl*lous) a. [Gr. other + leaf: cf. F. hétérophylle.] (Bot.) Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.

Heteroplasm
(Het"er*o*plasm) n. [Hetero- + Gr. anything formed or molded.] An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition. Dunglison.

Heteroplastic
(Het`er*o*plas"tic) a. [Hetero- + -plastic.] (Biol.) Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone. Haeckel.

Heteropod
(Het`er*o*pod) n. [Cf. F. hétéropode.] (Zoöl.) One of the Heteropoda.a. Heteropodous.


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