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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

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Formed of various materials; mixed;

as, a

farraginous

mountain

[R.]

Kirwan.

farraginous

concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages.

Sir T. Browne.

Adj.

[L. farrago, a mixture, from far, meal.]

Formed of various materials; mixed; as a farraginous mountain.

farraginous ‎(comparative more farraginous, superlative most farraginous)

(now rare) Random, miscellaneous, indiscriminate.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
  For being a confusion of knaves and fools, and a farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages; it is but natural if their determinations be monstrous, and many waies inconsistent with Truth.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
  Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor bar none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.