multipliciousadj.

1617 Sir T. Lake in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 36 The title is multifarious and the contents multiplicious.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xv. 141 That animall is not one, but multiplicious or many, which hath a duplicity or gemination of principall parts. View more context for this quotation

1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 57 From the symbolicall use of numbers, proceeded a multiplicious variety of names.

1701 E. Sherburne tr. Seneca Phædra & Hippolytus ii. i, in tr. Seneca Trag. 158 He sleeps more sound and sure On a hard Bed, than they who do secure Their Thefts in dark Receptacles; afraid, Tho under multiplicious shelter [L. multiplici domo] laid.

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. iv. 138 Its Apparatus [sc. of the nose]..is not so multiplicious as of the Eye.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 2/2 The neighbors had no alimentary want that could not have been satisfied out of the multiplicious stock.

1974 New Yorker 29 Apr. 136/2 Engel continued his multiplicious career as a conductor, composer, musical adviser, and sparkplug.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. ii. 343 The seed conveigheth with it not onely the extract and single Idea of every part, whereby it transmits their perfections or infirmities, but double and over againe; whereby sometimes it multipliciously delineates the same, as in Twins in mixed and numerous generations. View more context for this quotation