miscellanea

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/ˌmɪsəˈleɪnɪə/

Definition of miscellanea

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noun

A miscellaneous collection of different things; a miscellany.

“Bright copper utensils, strings of onions, and gigantic sausages, wine-skins, chillies, and castanets hung with a miscellanea of all kinds from the roof and walls.”
“Long tables of statistics from the Census Reports, extracts from books, and sometimes whole books reappear in the Record, jumbled into a miscellanea that includes a flamboyant discourse on “The Outlook for Prosperity,” […]”
“Through a renewed process of selection, miscellanea are cut down to compendia, which, once structurally organized, become texts”

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noun

A miscellaneous collection of different things; a miscellany.

“Bright copper utensils, strings of onions, and gigantic sausages, wine-skins, chillies, and castanets hung with a miscellanea of all kinds from the roof and walls.”
“Long tables of statistics from the Census Reports, extracts from books, and sometimes whole books reappear in the Record, jumbled into a miscellanea that includes a flamboyant discourse on “The Outlook for Prosperity,” […]”
“Through a renewed process of selection, miscellanea are cut down to compendia, which, once structurally organized, become texts”
(form-of, plural)plural of miscellaneum

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Borrowed from Latin miscellānea, neuter plural of miscellāneus, from miscellus (“mixed”), from misceō (“to mix”).

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