Miscellany

Word MISCELLANY
Character 10
Hyphenation mis cel la ny
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Definitions and meanings of "Miscellany"

What do we mean by miscellany?

A collection of various items, parts, or ingredients, especially one composed of diverse literary works. noun

A publication containing various literary works. noun

Miscellaneous; diversified

A mixture of various kinds; a combination of diverse objects, parts, or elements. noun

A diversified literary collection; a book or periodical publication containing compositions on various subjects. noun

Synonyms See mixture. noun

A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects. noun

A woman who dealt in various fineries; a milliner. noun

Miscellaneous; heterogeneous. adjective

Miscellaneous items noun

A collection of writings on various subjects or topics; an anthology. noun

A collection containing a variety of sorts of things noun

An anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. noun

Miscellaneous items.

A collection of writings on various subjects or topics; an anthology.

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The word "miscellany" in example sentences

Magius, 1664 "; then, pell-mell, there were: _A curious and edifying miscellany concerning church bells_ by Dom Rémi Carré; another _Edifying miscellany_, anonymous; a _Treatise of bells_ by Jean-Baptiste Thiers, curate of Champrond and Vibraye; a ponderous tome by an architect named ❋ Keene [Translator] Wallace (1877)

I was distinguishing what was indisputably a mass-market phenomenon-opera and the fantasies spun off from opera that were the core of so-called miscellany programs-from the serious music written for a composer's pupils or the connoisseurs who patronized aristocratic salons. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A miscellany is a collection of various literary productions kinds (poems, letters, essays, illustrations) gathered in a single volume, often united thematically rather than formally. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Recall that the president requested $17.0 billion for DOE and $4.8 billion for the "miscellany" (for a subtotal of an additional $21.8 billion). ❋ Unknown (2008)

This volume is condensed with many thoughts, and to some may seem more of a "miscellany" than what we intend it should be. ❋ Sara J. Duncan (1906)

Consequently, this book consists of two sections - an autobiographical account of Waldrop's life, followed by a kind of miscellany of Michael Revere's writings (essays, poetry, journals, etc.). ❋ Unknown (2010)

In my opinion, the "miscellany" approach practiced by most literary magazines -- by which the "best fiction available" is printed, with little or no indication of what makes it the "best" -- makes all too many of them useless; I can only make my way through a few of them, trying to find the "best" in a scattershot fashion, before I put them aside and conclude it just isn't worth my time (and sometimes money) to prospect for fiction in this way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"miscellany," or hodgepodge of prayers, poems and ritual law, probably written around the end of the 15th century. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These songs gradually developed a concomitant form of dialogue styled saturæ, a term denoting "miscellany", and derived perhaps from the _Satura lanx_, a charger filled with the first-fruits of the year's produce, which was offered to Bacchus and Ceres. [ ❋ Various (1885)

Inside, I use a medium-sized toiletry bag to protect my wicks and for the rest of the miscellany. ❋ Unknown (2009)

BOTTOM LINE: Feels less like a best-of collection and more like a miscellany, and an unenjoyable one at that. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While learning the songs for the show and working with his voice teacher, he was also journeying to Minneapolis to oversee a reading of a play he'd commissioned; rehearsing his one-man show of Shakespeare miscellany, "What You Will"; and co-directing "Peter and the Starcatcher," a prequel to "Peter Pan" that opened in early March to rapturous reviews at New York Theater Workshop. ❋ Joanne Kaufman (2011)

There's sly, self-deprecating humor to be found among the miscellany tacked onto the gallery walls. ❋ Jessica Dawson (2010)

This arena, inaccessible to the public for 145 years, now hosts a miscellany of events, from cancan dancers to choirs and theatre festivals. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Whitstable Mum in Custard Shortage, edited by Joel Rickett Viking, £12.99The most apparently frivolous news is important to someone: so runs the gently humane implication of this miscellany of silly-sounding stories from British local newspapers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Here," she would say, handing me a bag of miscellany. ❋ Ellen M. Kozak (2011)

Furiously over-lit, stewarded by a glammed Gary Lineker and played out in front of the usual jarring all-star miscellany – Rafa Benítez? ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sometimes FMyLife is a miscellany of simple complaints, but the ideal post depends on a mapping problem, an irretrievable misreading of a situation: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Still, 152 seemed 20 runs light as Parnell and Naved-ul-Hasan purveyed an expert miscellany of yorkers and loopy bouncers at the death. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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