idiosyncrasy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IDIOSYN'CRASY, noun [Gr. proper, with, and temperament.] A peculiar temperament or organization of a body, by which it is rendered more liable to certain disorders than bodies differently constituted.
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