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Definition of Multifarious
1. Adjective. Having many aspects. "A miscellaneous crowd"
Similar to: Varied
Derivative terms: Multifariousness
Definition of Multifarious
1. a. Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold.
Definition of Multifarious
1. Adjective. Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Multifarious
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Multifarious
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1. Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold. "There is a multifarious artifice in the structure of the meanest animal." (Dr. H. More)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Multifarious
Literary usage of Multifarious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1917)
"447, 43 NW 887, dissenting bill multifarious asking for an accounting by one ...
210, 211, holding complaint in infringement suit was not multifarious by ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The bill is not multifarious. When the mai- ters are homogeneous in their character,
the introduction of them in the same bill will not be multifarious. ..."
3. Federal Equity Practice: A Treatise on the Pleadings Used and Practice by Thomas Atkins Street (1909)
"A bifl is not necessarily rendered multifarious by reason of the fact that there
may be united in it several causes of action. If all the different causes ..."
4. Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1848)
"In attempting to enumerate the necessary functions of government, we find them
to be considerably more multifarious than most people are at first aware of, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions: Comprising a by Henry John Stephen, Franklin Fiske Heard (1867)
"No matters, however multifarious, will operate to make a pleading double, that
together constitute but one connected proposition or entire point. ..."
6. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1917)
"447, 43 NW 887, dissenting bill multifarious asking for an accounting by one ...
210, 211, holding complaint in infringement suit was not multifarious by ..."
7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The bill is not multifarious. When the mai- ters are homogeneous in their character,
the introduction of them in the same bill will not be multifarious. ..."
8. Federal Equity Practice: A Treatise on the Pleadings Used and Practice by Thomas Atkins Street (1909)
"A bifl is not necessarily rendered multifarious by reason of the fact that there
may be united in it several causes of action. If all the different causes ..."
9. Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1848)
"In attempting to enumerate the necessary functions of government, we find them
to be considerably more multifarious than most people are at first aware of, ..."
10. A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions: Comprising a by Henry John Stephen, Franklin Fiske Heard (1867)
"No matters, however multifarious, will operate to make a pleading double, that
together constitute but one connected proposition or entire point. ..."
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