adj. Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold.
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adj. Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold.
adj. Having parts, as leaves, arranged in many vertical rows.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Having great multiplicity; of great diversity or variety; made up of many differing parts.
In botany and zoology, arranged in many rows or ranks.
In law (of a pleading in equity), combining in the same bill of complaint distinct and separate claims of distinct natures or affecting different persons not connected therein, which ought to be made the subject of separate suits.
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adj. having many aspects
Word Usage
"Tristram Shandy, for instance, is in multifarious ways a marvellous book, but it is written in a tone of such constant high-pitched zaniness, such deliberate "liveliness", that one finds oneself screaming at it to calm down a bit."