adjective. Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles.

adjective. Made up of or combining elements from a variety of sources.

noun. One that follows an eclectic method.

Selecting; choosing; not confined to or following any one model or system, but selecting and appropriating whatever is considered best in all.

A practitioner of the American school of eclectic medicine.

noun. One who, in whatever department of knowledge, not being convinced of the fundamental principles of any existing system, culls from the teachings of different schools such doctrines as seem to him probably true, conformable to good sense, wholesome in practice, or recommended by other secondary considerations; one who holds that opposing schools are right in their distinctive doctrines, wrong only in their opposition to one another.

noun. Specifically— A follower of the ancient eclectic philosophy.

noun. In the early church, a Christian who believed the doctrine of Plato to be conformable to the spirit of the gospel.

noun. In medicine, a practitioner of eclectic medicine, either ancient or modern; an eclectic physician.

noun. One who follows an eclectic method.

adjective. Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems.

adjective. Consisting, or made up, of what is chosen or selected

adjective. undefined

adjective. See Bolognese school, under Bolognese.

adjective. Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.

adjective. Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.

noun. Someone who selects according to the eclectic method.

adjective. selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas

noun. someone who selects according to the eclectic method

"Richard Cahan, co-author with Michael Williams of the 400-page art book "Edgar Miller and the Handmade Home," published in 2009, mentioned the word "eclectic" to describe Miller's style, then took it back."

orthodox  

eclectic medicine  eclectic physician  

discriminating  

philosopher  

apoplectic  dialectic  hectic  pectic  

Catholic  artistic  comprehensive  conducive  confuse  

Cyrenaic  Eleatic  Epicurean  Megarian  Stoic