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omnium gatherum colloq.|ˈɒmnɪəm ˈgæðərəm|
Also hyphened; and 6 omnium githerum, 7 getherum. Cf. omnigatherum.
[f. L. omnium (see prec.) + gatherum, a mock-Latin form from gather v. quasi ‘a gathering’.]
1. A gathering of all sorts; a miscellaneous assemblage, collection, or mixture (of persons or things); a confused medley.
1530Croke Let. to Cranmer (MS. Cott. Vit. B xiii. 123 b) Certayne subscriptions unto the kynge, wheroff sauff ij, there ys none worthe a botton, but be omnium gatherum. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 43 [The Jesuits] haue made religion..a very hotch potch of omnium githerum. 1608Middleton Fam. Love v. iii, A rout of omnium gatherums assembled by the title of the Family of Love. 1683Tryon Way to Health 543 The Apothecary had muster'd up his several Slops and compleated the Composition of Omniumgatherum. 1776J. Adams in Fam. Lett. (1876) 214 My letters to you are an odd mixture. They would appear to a stranger like the dish which is sometimes called omnium gatherum. 1830Galt Lawrie T. iii. vii. (1849) 107 Such an omnium gatherum as the inhabitants of a new settlement. 1863Kingsley Water Bab. iii. 126 Odds and ends, and omnium-gatherums, and this, that, and the other, enough to fill nine museums.
†b. as adv. In a confused medley, promiscuously. Obs.
1648Merc. Acad. No. 1. 4 Being come omnium gatherum into the Convocation-house. 1650A. B. Mutat. Polemo 28 Whither we ganged as drunkenly reeling as the Ship, omnium getherum, all together.
†2. A kind of dance in vogue in the 17th c. Obs.
a1652Brome New Acad. v. Wks. 1873 II. 110 Stri. Play then Les tous ensembles. Neh. That's the French name on't Uncle, 'tis in Dutch call'd All-to-Mall; and I call it in English, Omnium Gatherum, 'tis the daintiest daunce. a1654Selden Table-t. (Arb.) 62 There has been nothing but French-more and the Cushion Dance, omnium gatherum, tolly, polly, hoite come toite.
†3. = omnium 1.
1761[see omnium 1]. 1793W. Roberts Looker-on No. 54 (1794) II. 305 With the omnium-gatherums, scrips, discounts, etc., it appeared that the funds and credit of Virtue were gradually rising. |