farraginous

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Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor barring none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.

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  1. adjective Composed of a variety of substances.

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  • Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor barring none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle. —  Ulysses
  • Looking remarkably at her ease in a smart tailor-made frock of navy serge, silk stockings, suede shoes, and a perfect summer hat trimmed with bright cherries as red as her lips, she sat amid a farraginous medley of newspapers, small parcels, and shiny leather traps, and presented an attractive picture of a flourishing schoolgirl of seventeen, -- careless, mischievous, and keenly, though discreetly, interested in everything about her; -- but, perhaps a little too healthy, and certainly too beautiful, to be quite typical either of the class or of the kind of school from which she hailed. —  Too Old for Dolls A Novel
  • At least we are safely rid of certain horrors; but if the multitude — that “farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages” — do not roll back even to a superstition that carries cruelty in its train, it is not because they possess a cultivated reason, but because they are pressed upon and held up by what we may call an external reason — the sum of conditions resulting from the laws of material growth, from changes produced by great historical collisions shattering the structures of ages and making new highways for events and ideas, and from the activities of higher minds no longer existing merely as opinions and teaching, but as institutions and organizations with which the interests, the affections, and the habits of the multitude are inextricably interwoven. —  The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
 

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  1. From Latin farrāgō, farrāgin-, medley, hodgepodge; see farrago.

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  1. from Latin farrago (farragin-) (see farrago) + -ous.
 

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