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miscellany

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Noun
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mis=cel=la=ny

CIDE DICTIONARY

miscellanyn. [L. miscellanea, neut. pl. of. miscellaneus: cf. F. miscellanée, pl. miscellanées. See Miscellaneous.].
     A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects.  [1913 Webster]
    "'T is but a bundle or miscellany of sin; sins original, and sins actual."  [1913 Webster]
Miscellany madam, a woman who dealt in various fineries; a milliner. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
miscellanya. 
     Miscellaneous; heterogeneous.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

miscellany, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a mixture, a medley.
2 a book containing a collection of stories etc., or various literary compositions.

Derivative
miscellanist n.
Etymology
F miscellan{eacute}es (fem. pl.) or L MISCELLANEA

THESAURUS

miscellany

Festschrift, album, all sorts, ana, analects, anthology, assemblage, assortment, beauties, brew, broad spectrum, canon, chrestomathy, clippings, collectanea, collected works, collection, colluvies, compilation, complete works, conglomerate, conglomeration, cuttings, delectus, diversity, excerpta, excerpts, extracts, florilegium, flowers, fragments, gallimaufry, garden, garland, gleanings, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, job lot, jumble, magpie, mash, medley, melange, melee, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellanea, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, mixture, motley, oddments, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnibus, omnium gatherum, omnium-gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, photograph album, posy, potpourri, quotation book, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, scrapbook, smorgasbord, stew, sundries, symposium, variety, what you will

ROGET THESAURUS

miscellany

Mixture

N mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion, commixion, intermixture, alloyage, matrimony, junction, combination, miscegenation, impregnation, infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion, infiltration, seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding, interpolation, adulteration, sophistication, tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon, alloy, amalgam, brass, chowchow, pewter, magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts, jumble, salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn, mosaic, half-blood, half-caste, mulatto, terceron, quarteron, quinteron, quadroon, octoroon, griffo, zambo, cafuzo, Eurasian, fustee, fustie, griffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule, catalo, cross, hybrid, mongrel, mixed, implex, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous, motley, miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate, miscible, among, amongst, amid, amidst, with, in the midst of, in the crowd.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

Generality

N generality, generalization, universality, catholicity, catholicism, miscellany, miscellaneousness, dragnet, common run, worldwideness, everyone, everybody, all hands, all the world and his wife, anybody, N or M, all sorts, prevalence, run, general, generic, collective, broad, comprehensive, sweeping, encyclopedical, widespread, universal, catholic, catholical, common, worldwide, ecumenical, oecumenical, transcendental, prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting, all over, covered with, Pan-American, Anglican, Pan-Hellenic, Pan-Germanic, slavic, panharmonic, every, all, unspecified, impersonal, customary, whatever, whatsoever, to a man, one and all, generally, always, for better for worse, in general, generally speaking, speaking generally, for the most part, in the long run.


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