单词 | miscellanea |
释义 | miscellanean. 1. a. As a mass noun: miscellaneous items, esp. literary compositions, that have been collected together, regarded collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > heterogeneous miscellanea1565 caravan1623 mob1728 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > miscellany miscellanea1565 rhapsody?1566 miscellanies1598 miscellany1615 miscellaneal1633 miscellaneas1639 olio1655 collectanea1791 pot-pourri1864 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Miscellanea, a myxture of dyuers thynges.] 1565 W. Alley Πτωχομυσεῖον (title page) The poore mans librarie... Here are adioyned..certaine fruitful annotacions which may properly be called Miscellanea. 1653 R. Flecknoe (title) Miscellania, or, Poems of all sorts, with divers other pieces. 1784 New Spectator No. 6. 3 I..begin my miscellanea with a Private Anecdote. 1836 H. N. Coleridge in S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains I. L'Envoy p. xiii I should misinform you grossly if I left you to infer that his collections were a heap of incoherent miscellanea. 1897 J. W. Clark Observ. Priory Barnwell Introd. 11 Miscellanea likely to be useful for reference. 1945 I. Gershwin Rhyme for Angela (song) in Lyrics on Several Occasions (1959) 320 If only her name were Titania, I'd star her in my miscellanea. 1984 P. Lively According to Mark iv. 52 Miscellanea like photographs and books and newspaper cuttings. 1997 Jrnl. Finance 52 2215 (heading) Miscellanea. 2001 BOMB Winter 19 Crocodiles, fruits, exuberant vegetation, the Garden of Eden, a lost perfect tongue, Dante, St. Francis, Che Guevara, boats adrift in Amazonian rivers, a cabinet of curiosities, magic spells, and reigning above all this miscellanea, high up on the altar, a parrot. ΚΠ 1690 W. Temple Ess. Anc. & Mod. Learning in Wks. (1731) I. 291 Upon the Miscellanea's first Printing in Paris, Monsieur Boileau made this short Satyr. 1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 13 Oct. (1948) I. 54 Harrison..has written some mighty pretty things; that in your 6th Miscellanea, about the Sprig of an Orange, is his. a1770 H. Jones Isle of Wight (1782) ii. p. xxv A miscellania fix'd and firm as fate, Of all that's beautiful of all that's great. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > miscellany miscellanea1565 rhapsody?1566 miscellanies1598 miscellany1615 miscellaneal1633 miscellaneas1639 olio1655 collectanea1791 pot-pourri1864 1639 in F. W. Jessup Sir Roger Twysden (1965) ix. 139 An old manuscript..containing many pretty miscellaneas, writ about Edward III his time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1565 |
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