multifarious

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From Latin multifārius.

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multifarious (comparative more multifarious, superlative most multifarious)

  1. Having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; made up of many differing parts.
    Synonyms: diverse, manifold, various; see also Thesaurus:heterogeneous
    • 1878, Henry James, An International Episode‎[1]:
      Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than […] the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, the extraordinary number of omnibuses, horsecars, and other democratic vehicles, […]
    • 1943 January and February, “Charles S. Lake”, in Railway Magazine, page 1:
      Now, it is our regretful task to record his death on November 19 after a brief illness, and to include in a short article on page 29 some notes on his multifarious activities.
    • 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 225c:
      It is divided into parts that are too small and multifarious.
  2. (law, of lawsuits) In which a party or a cause of action has been improperly or wrongfully joined together in the same suit, as in a misjoinder,[1] perhaps as a result of a joinder of unrelated, distinct, independent parties or matters.

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