miscellaneouslyadv.
/ˌmɪsəˈleɪnɪəsli/, U.S. /ˌmɪsəˈleɪniəsli/, /ˌmɪsəˈleɪnjəsli/ With variety or diversity; in various ways; without discrimination; on miscellaneous subjects.
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manifoldlyeOE
mislicheeOE
sere-wise1340
in (also on, by) sundry wisea1393
in sundry waysa1393
manifolda1400
manifoldwise1440
multifarya1450
sunderly?a1450
multiplyingly1483
sundrilya1500
several1551
changeably1567
sundrywise1591
severally1605
variously1627
miscellaneously1639
multifariously1657
variedly1827
1639 G. Rivers Heroinæ 120 All, holy, and prophane, are miscellaniously sacrific'd to fire and sword.
1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 41 He has written miscellaneously.
1815 J. B. Scott Diary 20 Feb. in E. Mann Englishman at Home & Abroad (1930) vii. 164 Attended Lectures and read miscellaneously.
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 17 740/1 They are more miscellaneously clever, and can make themselves more ‘generally useful’.
1905 Q. Rev. Jan. 42 He collected miscellaneously, and in all probability..indiscriminately.
1968 J. McPhee Woods from Hog Wallow in Pine Barrens 93 Charlie's place is low, miscellaneously built, dark, and tarpapered.
1991 Amer. Hist. Rev. 96 594/1 Individual Americans as miscellaneously different as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Gore Vidal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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