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Miscellanea

noun
1.
A collection containing a variety of sorts of things.  Synonyms: assortment, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety.  "He had a variety of disorders" , "A veritable smorgasbord of religions"





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"Miscellanea" Quotes from Famous Books



... See No. 60. This is probably the MS. mentioned by the second Viscount of Santarem, p. 574, in his volume, Ineditos (Miscellanea) Lisboa, 1914, large 8vo: "Un Ms. de Marc Polo du XV'e. siecle qui est mal indique par le titre suivant: Consuetudines et condiciones orientalium regionum descripto per mestrum Paulum de Venetiis scripto chartis vix ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... him from mixing pretty freely with men in society, though he seems to have thought that little of what passed was worth transcribing, nor in truth had Mr. Gladstone ever much or any of the rare talent of the born diarist. Here are one or two miscellanea which must be ...
— The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 • John Morley
... transacting things of real importance with real men and real women, and, at that time, did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry. Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet, afterwards earl of Arlington, from April to December, in 1650, are preserved in Miscellanea Aulica, a collection of papers, published by Brown. These letters, being written, like those of other men, whose minds are more on things than words, contribute no otherwise to his reputation, than as they show him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson


Words linked to "Miscellanea" :   odds and ends, grab bag, assemblage, accumulation, sampler, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum, farrago, ragbag, collection, alphabet soup, witches' broth, mishmash, oddments, aggregation, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge, range, witch's brew, melange, miscellany, hotchpotch, selection, potpourri, witches' brew


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