idiocrasy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IDIOC'RASY, noun [Gr. proper, peculiar to one's self, and mixture, temperament, to mix.] Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person.
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