Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of hypertrophy; hypertrophic.
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- adjective Alternative form of
hypertrophic .
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The public schools may still be seats of learning: not, however of _the_ learning which, as it were, is only the natural and involuntary auxiliary of a culture that is directed towards the noblest ends; but rather of that culture which might be compared to the hypertrophical swelling of an unhealthy body.
On the Future of our Educational Institutions Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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