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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



... advantage. Still, it should always be borne in mind that he could lie with an air of honest candor fit to deceive the very elect. The author of the "Battle of the Books" (written in 1697) tells us in the preface to the Third Part of Temple's "Miscellanea" (1701) that he "cannot well inform the reader upon what occasion" the essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning "was writ, having been at that time in another kingdom"; and the professed confidant of a ministry, whom the Stuart Papers have ...
— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell


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


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