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multifarious, a. (n.)|mʌltɪˈfɛərɪəs|
[f. late L. multifāri-us (class.L. multifāriam adv.) + -ous.]
1. Having great variety or diversity; much diversified; (with pl. n.) many and various.
1593Nashe Christ's T. 38 The Scripture thou madest a too-to compounde Cabalisticall substaunce of, by canonizing such a multifarious Genealogie of Comments. 1617Sir T. Lake in Fortescue Papers (Camden) 36 The title is multifarious and the contents multiplicious. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. i. 20 That complex and multifarious man that is made up of soul and body. 1655–87H. More App. Antid. (1712) 194 This Idea is not free from the intanglement of multifarious Contradictions in the conception thereof. 1779Johnson L.P., Pope (1868) 375 His reading, though his favourite authors are not known, appears to have been sufficiently extensive and multifarious. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 65 That multifarious thing called a state. 1826Good Bk. Nat. (1834) I. 111 The component parts of the cemented rocks are often very multifarious. 1850Grote Greece ii. lxvi. (1862) VI. 1 Two years of cruel and multifarious suffering. 1884F. Temple Relat. Relig. & Sci. iv. (1885) 99 The things themselves which thus change are as multifarious as the changes which they undergo.
b. Bot. (See quot.)
1838Barton & Castle Brit. Flora Med. II. Gloss., Multifarious, very numerous; or arranged in many rows.
2. Law. ‘Improperly joining in one bill distinct matters, and thereby confounding them’ (Story).
1838Story Equity Pleadings v. 186. 1872 Law Rep. Chanc. 7 App. 463 The bill is multifarious. Each Defendant has a separate defence, and the cases of all cannot be united in the same record.
3. n. In Kantian philosophy = manifold n. 2 a.
1819J. Richardson Kant's Logic Introd. 46 Distinctness itself may be two-fold: First, a sensual one. This consists in the consciousness of the multifarious by intuition. 1836J. W. Semple Kant's Metaphysic of Ethic Introd. li. note. 1837Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xlvi. (1870) II. 509 The principal function of the Understanding, out of the multifarious presented to it, to form a whole. |