This lusus naturae, or sport of nature, has a very pretty effect, but is oftener found in stones than other substances.

was there not room for one Lusus (not Naturæ, indeed, but) Accidentium?

Superstition seems, indeed, to be, next to the making of stone- weapons, the earliest method of asserting his superiority to the brutes which has occurred to that utterly abnormal and fantastic lusus naturae called man.

individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism. aberration; irregularity; variety; singularity; exemption; salvo &c (qualification) 469. nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch^, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae

Dicta, sales, lusus, sermones, gratia, risus, Vincunt naturae candidioris opus.

A lover in Calcagninus, wrote this on his darling's tomb, "Quincia obiit, sed non Quincia sola obiit, Quincia obiit, sed cum Quincia et ipse obii; Risus obit, obit gratia, lusus obit.

"In the centre of the square was an assemblage of everything in the world; theatres, wild beasts, lusus naturoe, mountebanks, buffoons, dancers on the slack wire, fighting and swearing, pocket-picking and stealing, music and dancing, and hubbub and confusion in every confused shape.

Such a lusus naturae as a woman without a heart and conscience would, in England, be a mere brutal savage, and poison half a village.

The Engraving is an accurate sketch of this extraordinary lusus naturae, which promises to occupy the attention of the whole Town, and has already excited no ordinary curiosity among all ranks of the scientific and sight-loving.

Dr. Warren is, however, of opinion, that the Siamese Boys present the most remarkable case of the lusus naturae which has yet been known, taking into view the perfection and distinctness of organization, and the length of time they have lived.

The gossips all turn from the task of nibbling one another, and the character of the lusus naturae becomes public property.

He sent for three great scholars, who, after much debate, concluded that I was only lusus naturae; a determination agreeable to the modern philosophy of Europe, whose professors have invented this wonderful solution of all difficulties, to the unspeakable advancement of human knowledge.

Connected with the varieties of the organ of scent, is the well-known story of that extraordinary lusus, the Pig-faced Lady.

Lusus animo debent aliquando dari, Ad cogitandum melior ut redeat sibi.

'Nosces jocosæ dulce cum sacrum Floræ, Festosque lusus, et licentiam vulgi, Cur in Theatrum Cato severe venisti?

I regret that we had no subsequent opportunity to decide whether this was one of a new species of the Macropodidae family, or a mere lusus naturae.

Thus no trace remains of the Lusus Pastorales licensed to Richard Jones in 1565, the nature of which can be only vaguely conjectured.

" "The dolts were lusus naturæ!"

Even Cecil Charnock was born too late to be one of the young ladies who, in the first decades of the reformed Parliament, used to look on a Liberal as a lusus naturae, whom they hardly believed to be a gentleman.