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Definition of Farraginous
1. a. Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain.
Definition of Farraginous
1. Adjective. (rare) Random, miscellaneous, indiscriminate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Farraginous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Farraginous
Literary usage of Farraginous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Phonographic Dictionary: Exhibiting the Correct and Actual by Elias Longley (1882)
"... Farcy) Fare-ed farraginous) Farrago ' Farrier-y Farrow-ed Farrowing Far-sighted
Farther-est Farthing Farthingale Fascia-1 Fasciato-ed Fascicle ..."
2. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"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 ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"farraginous, (far-radje'-e-nus) o. Formed of different materials. FARRAGO, (fyr-ra'-go)
ns A mass formed confusedly of several ingredients; a medley. ..."
4. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1853)
"... it's very plain they are not able to defend their Province, & really, Sir,
the Present Constitution seems to me to stand upon a very farraginous System. ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1807)
"In ophthalmia, after having declaimed against ' the vile and farraginous nostrums,
which have been handed down from masters to their ..."
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