Eclectic

fly into ek-lek'-tic, splinters; tic, to a. a. burst; selecting to flash); choosing. out and adopting from the views of others what seems good: s. a philosopher who selects from various systems such opinions and principles as he judges to be sound and rational; originally one who,having no system of his own, selected from Plato and Aristotle; eventually a Plat on i zing Christian; in modern times, one who, recognizing an element of truth in all systems, collects a new and fuller one one out of the whole (Gr. ek, and lego, to choose). Eclectically, ek-lek'-te-kalle, ad. in the manner of the eclectic philosophers.