miscellany

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Spectres--devils--gnomes and jinn of the Islamitic Solomon--rakshakas and hanumen of the Eastern Iliads--surely this miscellany was a composition of them all.

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  1. noun A collection of various items, parts, or ingredients, especially one composed of diverse literary works.
  2. noun A publication containing various literary works.

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  • In this fog and miscellany, and until the heavenly sun shall give me one beam, will not you, friend and joy of so many years, send me a quiet line or two now and then to say that you still smoke your pipe in peace, side by side with wife and brother also well and smoking, or able to smoke? —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
  • The miscellany, among other minor poems of Dryden, contained many of his occasional prologues and epilogues, the composition of which his necessity had rendered so important a branch of income, that, in the midst of his splendour of satirical reputation, the poet was obliged to chaffer about the scanty recompence which he drew from such petty sources. —  The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Vol. I
  • A miscellany is a collection of various literary productions kinds (poems, letters, essays, illustrations) gathered in a single volume, often united thematically rather than formally. —  The Millions
  • King's book is a profound meditation on his habit of gathering miscellany-what many would consider junk. —  The Chicago Blog
  • A New Mexican miscellany, offering eclectic linkage since 1999. —  dangerousmeta!
 

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  1. Latin miscellānea, miscellanea; see miscellanea.

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  1. I. a.: see miscellaneous. II. n. = French miscellanāes, plural, = Spanish misouselánea = Portuguese Italian miscellanea, from Latin miscellaneé, a writing on various subjects, a mixture of different sorts of broken meats, neuter plural of miscellaneus, mixed: see miscellaneous.
 

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