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farraginous, a.|fəˈreɪdʒɪnəs|
[f. as prec. + -ous.]
Miscellaneous, indiscriminate, ‘hotchpotch’. Also of a person: That makes a hotch-potch.
1615[see bullimong 1 b]. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iii. 10 A farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sex, and ages. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 103 The stomach..becomes tantaliz'd by the farraginous mixtures of concretes. 1765Warburton Div. Legat. iv. iv. §6 Notes (ed. 4) 131 The great farraginous body of Popish rites and ceremonies. 1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 226 In some [mountains] different species [of stone] are jumbled together, these I call faraginous. a1843Southey Doctor cxxii. (1862) 301 The Laureate has somewhere in his farraginous notes..a story of certain Polish physicians who [etc.]. 1863Reade in All Year Round 3 Oct. 123/2 Bailey was one of the farraginous fools of the unscientific science. |