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  • adjective Alternative spelling of homeopathic.

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Examples

  • "Would you opt for a long-term homoeopathic treatment to show its effect if you meet with a car accident?

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • If it does occur, then the effects of what may be termed homoeopathic doses of this substance are totally different from the effects which arise from larger doses.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various

  • THUS far we have been considering chiefly that branch of sympathetic magic which may be called homoeopathic or imitative.

    Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 3. Contagious Magic 1922

  • THUS far we have been considering chiefly that branch of sympathetic magic which may be called homoeopathic or imitative.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • THUS far we have been considering chiefly that branch of sympathetic magic which may be called homoeopathic or imitative.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • She wants what some would call homoeopathic treatment.

    The Vicar's Daughter George MacDonald 1864

  • I think ours was what would be called homoeopathic practice now-a-days.

    My Lady Ludlow Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • THUS far we have been considering chiefly that branch of sympathetic magic which may be called homoeopathic or imitative.

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

  • The rumour that the hippopotamus demanded a pailful of jam with its mangel-wurzels, in the belief that they were some kind of homoeopathic pill, appears to have been baseless.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 Various

  • Sally was prevented by the elements from misusing an adjective; for she wanted to say that the effect of a stone thrown into such a sea was merely "homoeopathic," and abstained because her remark would have been unheard.

    Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

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