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omnifarious, a.|ɒmnɪˈfɛərɪəs| [f. L. omnifari-us (f. omni- all: cf. multifarious) + -ous.] Of all kinds or forms: exceedingly various; relating to or dealing with all kinds of things.
1653H. More Antid. Ath. iii. xv. (1712) 135 That all the Species of things..came first out of the Earth, by the omnifarious attempt of the particles of the matter upon one another. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §25. 26 The Confused Chaos of Omnifarious Atoms. 1708J. Philips Cyder ii. 209 If Thou..omnifarious Drinks wou'dst brew. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. II. ii. i. §22 A mind capacious of omnifarious erudition. Hence omniˈfariousness.
1806W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. II. 127 In the nude cypherableness of the story and in the omnifariousness of the language. |