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‖ hoc genus omne phr.|hɒk ˈgɛnəs ˈɒmniː|
[L. (Horace, Satires I. ii. 2).]
Usu. in phr. et (occas. and) hoc genus omne: and the whole of that class or group; and all that kind of thing (often as ornamental substitute for et cetera).
1748Chesterfield Let. 9 Mar. (1774) I. 271 All the shops, drolls, tumblers, rope-dancers, and hoc genus omne. 1834C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1874) III. xxiii. 95 He saw Newcastle, Winchelsea, Wetherell, and hoc genus omne as much the objects of idolatry as himself. 1867Rossetti Let. 23 Oct. (1965) II. 641 When razzias occur on the part of organ-grinders, brass bands, et hoc genus omne. 1889G. B. Shaw Lond. Mus. 1888–89 (1937) 94 Handfuls of earls, a dean..half-a-dozen members of Parliament, et hoc genus omne. 1953Essays in Criticism III. 2 The Herbert Warrens and the Sidney Lees, et hoc genus omne. |