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Pathologically misplaced poetic composition about college (7)

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ectopic

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'pathologically misplaced' is the definition.
The answer and definition are different parts of speech. However, past participle verbs and adjectives sometimes mean the same thing.

'poetic composition about college' is the wordplay.
'composition' indicates anagramming the letters (letters arranged or composed in a different order).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'college' becomes 'c'.
'poetic' with letters rearranged gives 'etopic'.
'etopic' placed around 'c' is 'ECTOPIC'.

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(Other definitions for ectopic that I've seen before include "unusual pregnancy" , "In an unusual situation" , "out of place" , "In an abnormal position" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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