Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Consisting of all kinds.

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  • adjective rare Consisting of all kinds.

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  • adjective Consisting of all kinds.

Etymologies

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Latin omniqenus; omnis all + genus kind.

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Examples

  • Infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among them;

    Walt Whitman 1900

  • Nor can the guidance of mankind be with safety entrusted to one who for eighty-six years insisted on remaining by his own hearth-stone a mere omnivorous reader and omnigenous writer of books.

    Studies in Early Victorian Literature Frederic Harrison 1877

  • Not a sale of MSS. occurred, apparently, in London, during his time, at which he was not an omnigenous purchaser; so that students of every subject now bury themselves in his stores with great content and profit.

    English Book Collectors William Younger Fletcher 1871

  • Infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among

    Leaves of Grass [1867] 1867

  • Infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among them,

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

  • The labors of these eminent divines are aided by those of innumerable lecturers, who diffuse such a various profundity, in all subjects of human or celestial science, that any man may acquire an omnigenous erudition without the trouble of even learning to read.

    The Celestial Railroad 1846

  • In Physics a vast and omnigenous mass of information lies before the inquirer, all in a confused litter, and needing arrangement and analysis.

    The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin John Henry Newman 1845

  • The labours of these eminent divines are aided by those of innumerable lecturers, who diffuse such a various profundity, in all subjects of human or celestial science, that any man may acquire an omnigenous erudition, without the trouble of even learning to read.

    The Celestial Rail-road 1843

  • The labors of these eminent divines are aided by those of innumerable lecturers, who diffuse such a various profundity, in all subjects of human or celestial science, that any man may acquire an omnigenous erudition without the trouble of even learning to read.

    Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • He had by one whole generation run before the phrenologists and craniologists, -- having already measured innumerable skulls amongst the omnigenous seafaring population of Liverpool, illustrating all the races of men, -- and was in society a most urbane and pleasant companion.

    Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822

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