multifariousadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌmʌltᵻˈfɛːrɪəs/, U.S.

/ˌməltiˈfɛriəs/; see also multi- comb. form.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin multifarius , -ous suffix.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin multifarius (Vetus Latina; from 8th cent. in British sources; < multi- multi- comb. form + -farius : see bifarious adj.) + -ous suffix. Compare classical Latin multifāriam , adverb. Compare earlier multifary adj.In use as noun, after German das Mannigfaltige (e.g. in Kant Logik (1800, translated in quot. 1819 at sense B.)).

A. adj.

a. Having great variety or diversity; having many and various parts, aspects, types, etc. Also (with plural noun): many and various.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective]

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polytypical1890

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 38 The Scripture thou madest a too-to compounde Cabalisticall substaunce of, by canonizing such a multifarious Genealogie of Comments.

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

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) i. iii. 17 That Complex and Multifarious man that is made up of Soul & Body.

1655 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 2) App. v. 323 This Idea is not free from the intanglement of multifarious contradictions in the conception thereof.

1728 P. Walker Six Saints (1901) I. 8 To rip up..the foul moniplyes of that bundle of these intricate implicate, multifarious, and unnecessary oaths.

1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 13 His reading, though his favourite authors are not known, appears to have been sufficiently extensive and multifarious.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 65 That multifarious thing called a state.

1826 J. M. Good Bk. Nature I. vi. 125 The component parts of the cemented rocks are often very multifarious.

1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxvi. 398 Two years of cruel and multifarious suffering.

1884 F. Temple Relations Relig. & Sci. (1885) iv. 99 The things themselves which thus change are as multifarious as the changes which they undergo.

1929 R. S. Lynd & H. M. Lynd Middletown i. 3 Granted that no one phase of living can be understood without a study of all the rest, how is one to set about the investigation of anything as multifarious as the gross-total thing that is Schenectady, Akron, Dallas or Keokuk?

1968 B. T. Scheer & E. R. Jones in M. Florkin & B. T. Scheer Chem. Zool. II. iii. i. 289 The classical literature of parasitology is concerned largely with..the complex and multifarious details of parasite reproduction, development, and life history.

1998 T. C. Boyle Riven Rock 13 The multifarious marvel of his congested brain surprised him.

b. Botany. Of leaves: arranged in many rows. rare.

ΚΠ

1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 263 Leaves spirally multifarious mottled narrow longiform.

1838 B. H. Barton & T. Castle Brit. Flora Medica II. Gloss. Multifarious, very numerous; or arranged in many rows.

1954 H. I. Featherly Taxon. Terminol. Higher Plants (1965) 38/2 Multifarious, many-ranked, as leaves in vertical ranks.

1986 Systematic Bot. 11 148 (caption) Slender inclining trunk..and multifarious condition of leaves.

2. Law. Of a bill, etc.: inappropriately or confusingly embracing two or more distinct matters. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [adjective] > confusing distinct matters in one bill

multifarious1803

1803 J. Dickens Chancery Rep. II. 677 Demurrer to a bill, for that it was multifarious, overruled being informal... A demurrer would not lie to a bill for being multifarious.

1838 J. Story Comm. Equity Pleadings v. 186 It was held, that the Bill was multifarious.

1872 Law Rep.: Chancery Appeal Cases 7 463 The bill is multifarious. Each Defendant has a separate defence, and the cases of all cannot be united in the same record.

1911 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 5 531 A technical argument is pressed that..the bill is multifarious in attempting to unite claims made by the plaintiff..with some others.

1949 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 175 826/1 It..found the bill multifarious and upon that ground declined to reverse the decree sustaining the demurrer.

B. n.

Philosophy. With the. In Kantian philosophy: the sum of the particulars furnished by the senses before they have been unified by the synthesis of the understanding; = manifold n.¹ 3a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > idealism > [noun] > Kantianism > elements of

conception1701

schematism1794

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form1803

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Anschauung1820

manifold?1822

category1829

modality1836

multiplex1836

predicable1838

multiple1839

multiplicity1839

presentmenta1842

elanguescence1855

1798 A. F. M. Willich Elements Crit. Philos. 163 Intuition..is every representation of variety or the multifarious.

1819 J. Richardson tr. I. Kant Logic Introd. 46 Distinctness itself may be two-fold: First, a sensual one. This consists in the consciousness of the multifarious by intuition.

1836 J. W. Semple Kant's Metaphysic of Ethic Introd. p. li (note) Combination is therefore the representing of a composite unity of the multifarious.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xlvi. 509 The principal function of the Understanding, out of the multifarious presented to it, to form a whole.

2002 www.jameshyde.com 26 Nov. (O.E.D. Archive) Kant distinguishes between beauty and the sublime in this way: beauty is the multifarious while the sublime is great and simple.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	multifarious
释义	multifariousadj.n. Brit. /ˌmʌltᵻˈfɛːrɪəs/, U.S. /ˌməltiˈfɛriəs/; see also multi- comb. form. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin multifarius , -ous suffix. Etymology: < post-classical Latin multifarius (Vetus Latina; from 8th cent. in British sources; < multi- multi- comb. form + -farius : see bifarious adj.) + -ous suffix. Compare classical Latin multifāriam , adverb. Compare earlier multifary adj.In use as noun, after German das Mannigfaltige (e.g. in Kant Logik (1800, translated in quot. 1819 at sense B.)). A. adj. 1. a. Having great variety or diversity; having many and various parts, aspects, types, etc. Also (with plural noun): many and various. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] sunderlyeOE manifoldeOE selcoutha1000 felefoldc1000 mislichOE alkinOE manykinOE fele-kync1175 serekina1300 sundera1325 sundrya1325 serea1340 divers1340 varyingc1340 variantc1380 muchfoldc1384 serelepesa1400 serelepya1400 multifaryc1460 sundryfoldc1460 multiplicate?a1475 variable?a1475 sundrilyc1480 diversea1542 particoloured1591 multifarious1593 Protean1594 daedal1596 choiceful1605 Daedalian1605 multiplex1606 variated1608 diversified1611 multiplicious1617 variousa1634 multivarious1636 mosaic1644 multiple1647 omnigenous1650 chequered1656 plurifarious1656 ununiform1660 variate1677 disuniform1687 Proteusian1689 unsteady1690 unequable1693 inequable1721 variegating1727 varied1733 multitudinous1744 multifold1806 polygeneous1818 unequalized1822 ruleless1836 varicoloured185. non-uniform1856 omnigener1857 polytypic1858 multiferous1860 variatious1871 variegated1872 polytypical1890 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 38 The Scripture thou madest a too-to compounde Cabalisticall substaunce of, by canonizing such a multifarious Genealogie of Comments. 1617 Sir T. Lake in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 36 The title is multifarious and the contents multiplicious. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) i. iii. 17 That Complex and Multifarious man that is made up of Soul & Body. 1655 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 2) App. v. 323 This Idea is not free from the intanglement of multifarious contradictions in the conception thereof. 1728 P. Walker Six Saints (1901) I. 8 To rip up..the foul moniplyes of that bundle of these intricate implicate, multifarious, and unnecessary oaths. 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 13 His reading, though his favourite authors are not known, appears to have been sufficiently extensive and multifarious. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 65 That multifarious thing called a state. View more context for this quotation 1826 J. M. Good Bk. Nature I. vi. 125 The component parts of the cemented rocks are often very multifarious. 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxvi. 398 Two years of cruel and multifarious suffering. 1884 F. Temple Relations Relig. & Sci. (1885) iv. 99 The things themselves which thus change are as multifarious as the changes which they undergo. 1929 R. S. Lynd & H. M. Lynd Middletown i. 3 Granted that no one phase of living can be understood without a study of all the rest, how is one to set about the investigation of anything as multifarious as the gross-total thing that is Schenectady, Akron, Dallas or Keokuk? 1968 B. T. Scheer & E. R. Jones in M. Florkin & B. T. Scheer Chem. Zool. II. iii. i. 289 The classical literature of parasitology is concerned largely with..the complex and multifarious details of parasite reproduction, development, and life history. 1998 T. C. Boyle Riven Rock 13 The multifarious marvel of his congested brain surprised him. b. Botany. Of leaves: arranged in many rows. rare. ΚΠ 1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 263 Leaves spirally multifarious mottled narrow longiform. 1838 B. H. Barton & T. Castle Brit. Flora Medica II. Gloss. Multifarious, very numerous; or arranged in many rows. 1954 H. I. Featherly Taxon. Terminol. Higher Plants (1965) 38/2 Multifarious, many-ranked, as leaves in vertical ranks. 1986 Systematic Bot. 11 148 (caption) Slender inclining trunk..and multifarious condition of leaves. 2. Law. Of a bill, etc.: inappropriately or confusingly embracing two or more distinct matters. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [adjective] > confusing distinct matters in one bill multifarious1803 1803 J. Dickens Chancery Rep. II. 677 Demurrer to a bill, for that it was multifarious, overruled being informal... A demurrer would not lie to a bill for being multifarious. 1838 J. Story Comm. Equity Pleadings v. 186 It was held, that the Bill was multifarious. 1872 Law Rep.: Chancery Appeal Cases 7 463 The bill is multifarious. Each Defendant has a separate defence, and the cases of all cannot be united in the same record. 1911 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 5 531 A technical argument is pressed that..the bill is multifarious in attempting to unite claims made by the plaintiff..with some others. 1949 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 175 826/1 It..found the bill multifarious and upon that ground declined to reverse the decree sustaining the demurrer. B. n. Philosophy. With the. In Kantian philosophy: the sum of the particulars furnished by the senses before they have been unified by the synthesis of the understanding; = manifold n.¹ 3a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > idealism > [noun] > Kantianism > elements of conception1701 schematism1794 categorical imperative1796 intuition1796 matter1796 receptivity1796 schema1796 dialectic1797 multifarious1798 reciprocity1799 form1803 synthesis1817 Anschauung1820 manifold?1822 category1829 modality1836 multiplex1836 predicable1838 multiple1839 multiplicity1839 presentmenta1842 elanguescence1855 1798 A. F. M. Willich Elements Crit. Philos. 163 Intuition..is every representation of variety or the multifarious. 1819 J. Richardson tr. I. Kant Logic Introd. 46 Distinctness itself may be two-fold: First, a sensual one. This consists in the consciousness of the multifarious by intuition. 1836 J. W. Semple Kant's Metaphysic of Ethic Introd. p. li (note) Combination is therefore the representing of a composite unity of the multifarious. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xlvi. 509 The principal function of the Understanding, out of the multifarious presented to it, to form a whole. 2002 www.jameshyde.com 26 Nov. (O.E.D. Archive) Kant distinguishes between beauty and the sublime in this way: beauty is the multifarious while the sublime is great and simple. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1593
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