Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Being of every form, or capable of taking any shape or figure; pantomorphic; protean; amœbiform.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having every form or shape.

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  • adjective Having every form or shape.

Etymologies

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Latin omniformis; omnis all + forma form: compare French omniforme.

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Examples

  • God's omniform essence is always the content of perception, intellection and passion.

    Motherly Advice Trace Sheridan 2009

  • Sequan at the dilucul and crepuscul; we deambulate by the compites and quadrives of the urb; we despumate the Latial verbocination; and, like verisimilary amorabons, we captat the benevolence of the omnijugal, omniform and omnigenal feminine sex.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Sequan at the dilucul and crepuscul; we deambulate by the compites and quadrives of the urb; we despumate the Latial verbocination; and, like verisimilary amorabons, we captat the benevolence of the omnijugal, omniform and omnigenal feminine sex.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Rishis that they meditate only on sun, air, ether, and earth, and informs them in return that the special names of these beings are 'the omniform,' 'he who moves in various ways,' 'the full one,' 'wealth and

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

  • Thou primordial Sea, the awfulness of whose antiquity hath stricken all mythology dumb; -- thou most wrinkled diving Sea, the millions of whose years outnumber even the multitude of thy hoary motions; -- thou omniform and most mysterious Sea, mother of the monsters and the gods, -- whence shine eternal youth?

    Chita: a Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • The scholar answered, We transfretate the Sequan at the dilucul and crepuscul; we deambulate by the compites and quadrives of the urb; we despumate the Latial verbocination; and, like verisimilary amorabons, we captat the benevolence of the omnijugal, omniform and omnigenal feminine sex.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

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