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multivarious, a. Now rare.|mʌltɪˈvɛərɪəs|
[f. multi- + L. vari-us (see various a.), as literal equivalent of Gr. πολυποίκιλος ‘much-variegated, manifold’ (L. & Sc.).]
Manifold and diverse.
1620Featly Clavis Myst. vi. (1636) 69 That manifold, or (to make a new compound to translate a compound), in the Originall multivarious wisedome [πολυποίκιλος Eph. iii. 10]. 1644Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings 24 God in Scripture, by frequent, pregnant, and multivarious expressions, hath so vindicated to himselfe the making and constituting of Kings [etc.]. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §16. 293 From..One Supreme Deity altogether proceeds the Genesis of the multivarious matter. 1832F. A. Kemble Let. in Rec. Girlhood (1878) III. 244 Multitudinous and multivarious beasts of prey. 1903Academy 31 Oct. 462/1 Multi-various gossip about the London localities he knew best.
So † multivaˈriety.
1601[Bp. W. Barlow] Defence 79 That multi-varietie of Gods wisdome. [Cf. 1620 above.] |