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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Abnormal \Ab*nor"mal\, a. [For earlier anormal.F. anormal, LL.
     anormalus for anomalus, Gr. ?. Confused with L. abnormis. See
     {Anomalous}, {Abnormous}, {Anormal}.]
     Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type;
     anomalous; irregular. ``That deviating from the type;
     anomalous; irregular. '' --Froude.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  abnormal
       adj 1: not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to
              a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal
              amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an
              abnormal interest in food" [ant: {normal}]
       2: departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and
          development; "they were heartbroken when they learned
          their child was abnormal"; "an abnormal personality" [ant:
           {normal}]
       3: much greater than the normal; "abnormal profits"; "abnormal
          ambition"

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  ABNORMAL, adj.  Not conforming to standard.  In matters of thought and
  conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be
  detested.  Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the
  straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. 
  Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and
  the hope of Hell.
  
  

From eng-fra [engfra]:

  abnormal
  	[æbnɔːml]
  	aberrant, anormal
  
  

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