omnigenous

“Infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among them;”

Walt Whitman

“Nor can the guidance of mankind be with safety entrusted to one who for eighty-six years insisted on remaining by his own hearth-stone a mere omnivorous reader and omnigenous writer of books.”

Studies in Early Victorian Literature

“Not a sale of MSS. occurred, apparently, in London, during his time, at which he was not an omnigenous purchaser; so that students of every subject now bury themselves in his stores with great content and profit.”

English Book Collectors

“Infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among”

Leaves of Grass [1867]

“Infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among them,”

Leaves of Grass

“The labors of these eminent divines are aided by those of innumerable lecturers, who diffuse such a various profundity, in all subjects of human or celestial science, that any man may acquire an omnigenous erudition without the trouble of even learning to read.”

The Celestial Railroad

“In Physics a vast and omnigenous mass of information lies before the inquirer, all in a confused litter, and needing arrangement and analysis.”

The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin

“The labours of these eminent divines are aided by those of innumerable lecturers, who diffuse such a various profundity, in all subjects of human or celestial science, that any man may acquire an omnigenous erudition, without the trouble of even learning to read.”

The Celestial Rail-road

“He had by one whole generation run before the phrenologists and craniologists, -- having already measured innumerable skulls amongst the omnigenous seafaring population of Liverpool, illustrating all the races of men, -- and was in society a most urbane and pleasant companion.”

Memorials and Other Papers — Complete