Irregular

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One who is not regular; especially, a soldier not in regular service.

II. Irregular ·adj Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, ·etc. ·cf. Regular.

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