Farraginous

//fəˈɹeɪd͡ʒɪnəs// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Random, miscellaneous, indiscriminate. archaic

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From (the stem of) Latin farrago + -ous.

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