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variegated, ppl. a.|ˈvɛərɪɪgeɪtɪd, -rɪg-|
[f. prec. or L. variegāt-us, pa. pple. of variegāre.]
1. a. Marked with patches or spots of different colours; varied in colour; of diverse or various colours; many-coloured, vari-coloured; spec. in Bot. (see variegation 1).
a1661Fuller Worthies, Norwich (1662) 274 The skil in making Tulips..variegated, with stripes of divers colours. 1688Boyle Final Causes ii. 46 In sawing pieces of variegated marbles. 1718Pope Odyss. xv. 145 She said, and gave the veil;..The prince the variegated present took. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. viii. 218 The glittering of the sun on their variegated plumage. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xviii. (1787) II. 78 A variegated flowing robe of silk. 1812Examiner 24 Aug. 544/2 Some of his tradesmen..illuminated their houses with variegated lamps. 1852Beck's Florist 212 This magnificent new variegated plant is a native of Java. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 565 They are sometimes smooth, sometimes ribbed, upon the surface, and often variegated in colour.
Comb.1763Mills Pract. Husb. III. 238 However, neither the yellow, nor the variegated, flowered lucerne is ever so strong as that with purple flowers. 1883Harper's Mag. April 727/1 Near it is the striking foliage of the variegated-leaved althea.
b. In the specific names of animals, birds, etc.
A large number of similar uses occur in the works of Latham and Shaw.
1783Latham Gen. Syn. Birds II. i. 99 Variegated chatterer. Ibid. 181 Variegated Bunting (Emberiza principalis). 1792Shaw Mus. Leverianum 38 The Variegated Baboon. 1801― Gen. Zool. II. 17 Variegated Cavy. Ibid. 123 Variegated Marmot. 1802Ibid. III. i. 235 Variegated Lizard. 1804Ibid. V. ii. 439 Variegated Sun-fish. 1814Leach Zool. Misc. I. 117 Variegated Coucal. 1840[see sole n.2 2]. 1871Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 95 The Douc, or Variegated Monkey,..is perhaps the most gaily clad of all this group. 1881Ibid. V. 73 The Variegated Sole (Solea variegata) is rarely more than eight or nine inches long, and closely resembles the Common Sole. 1888Cassell's Encycl. Dict. s.v., Variegated spider-monkey, Ateles variegatus, or bartlettii.
c. In the names of plants or shrubs.
1818M. Edgeworth Let. 4 Oct. (1971) 107 All the varieties of trees and shrubs..he has now revealed to view—The tulip tree and acacia and variegated oak and..the variegated rhododendron. 1852G. W. Johnson Cott. Gard. Dict. 904/2 Variegated Laurel, Aucuba. 1855Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. V. 260 Variegated Simethis. 1859― Brit. Grasses 298 Variegated Rough Horse-tail. 1874T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. x. 100 Boughs of laurustinus, and variegated box,..and boy's love.
d. Min. (See quots.)
1836T. Thomson Min., Geol., etc. I. 622 Variegated Copper Ore. Buntkupfererz—liver-coloured copper ore. 1862Dana Min. 294 Erubescite.—Variegated Copper Pyrites. 1888Cassell's Encycl. Dict. s.v., Variegated copper-ore, the same as Bornite. Ibid., Variegated-sandstone, a name formerly given to the New Red Sandstone.
2. a. Marked or characterized by variety; of a varied character, form, or nature; diverse.
1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ ii. vii. 3 Therein was abundantly seen Gods πολυποίκιλος σοϕία, his variegated wisdom. 1687N. N. Old Popery 18 God Almighty..accepts the variegated Services of his different Creatures. 1762Falconer Shipwr. Proem 20 Ye ever-tuneful Nine! whose sacred lyres,..in softer notes, express The variegated pang of deep distress. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 110 The dancers prance it away, with wild and quick sliding steps, and variegated postures of body. 1798Washington Lett. Writ. 1893 XIV. 57 The variegated and important duties of the Aids of a Commander-in-Chief..require experienced Officers. 1817Chalmers Astron. Disc. iv. (1852) 105 The minute and variegated details of the way in which this wondrous economy is extended. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 387, I go along the same variegated path I came by yesterday.
b. Composed of persons of various characters or kinds; heterogeneous; motley. rare.
1807Wordsw. White Doe i. 162 A variegated band Of middle aged, and old, and young. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1877) I. xix. 381 The variegated group which composed Lord Aberdeen's ministry.
3. Varied or diversified (in colour, appearance, etc.) with something.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 379 The whole World, variegated with Plants, Animals and Stars, being his [sc. God's] Temple. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 156 ⁋10 No plays have oftener filled the eye with tears..than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VII. 265 The colour is generally an olive brown, variegated with one that is more dusky. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 180 The tract of country..is happily variegated with plains and mountains, hills and vallies. 1806Gazetteer Scot. (ed. 2) 433 The surface is variegated with hills and eminences, streams of water, and fertile plains. 1845Florist's Jrnl. (1846) VI. 104 Their colour is a bright-golden scarlet; the limb variegated with red and yellow. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 287 Corolla blue variegated with white inside.
4. Characterized by variegation (of colour).
1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 7 Who does not admire the variegated diversity of colours in her [the butterfly's] expansed wings? 1835Lyell Princ. Geol. iii. xvi. (ed. 4) III. 271 The surface..was of a variegated colour. 1877Black Green Past. xlii, A rich wilderness of flowers, of the most bountiful verdure and variegated colours.
5. Produced by variation; variant.
1872Liddon Elem. Relig. iv. 143 For all that disease is disease, and not a variegated form of health.
Hence ˈvariegatedness.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 215 Variegatedness, motly, pyed, particoloured, divers colours. |