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Webster 1913 Edition
Farraginous
Far-rag-i-nous
,Adj.
[See
Farrago
.] Formed of various materials; mixed;
as, a
. farraginous
mountain[R.]
Kirwan.
A
farraginous
concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages. Sir T. Browne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Farraginous
FARRAG'INOUS
,Adj.
Formed of various materials; mixed; as a farraginous mountain.
Definition 2024
farraginous
farraginous
English
Adjective
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.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3: