‖ miscellanea
(mɪsəˈleɪnɪə)
[neut. pl. of L. miscellāneus (see miscellaneous): in Latin used for ‘hash of broken meat’ and ‘a writing on miscellaneous subjects’. Used also in Fr.]
A collection of miscellaneous literary compositions; a literary medley or miscellany. Also, a miscellaneous collection of notes, or the like.
| 1571 Alley (title) The poore mans Librarie... Here are adioyned..certaine..annotations which may properly be called Miscellanea. 1653 R. Flecknoe (title) Miscellania, Or, Poems of all sorts, with divers other Pieces. 1690 Temple Ess., Learning Wks. 1731 I. 291 Upon the Miscellanea's first Printing in Paris, Monsieur Boileau made this short Satyr. 1710 Swift Jrnl. to Stella vi, [He] has written some mighty pretty things; that in your 6{supt}{suph} Miscellanea, about the Sprig of an Orange, is his. 1784 New Spect. No. 6. 3, I..begin my miscellanea with a Private Anecdote. 1836 H. N. Coleridge Lit. Rem. S. T. Coleridge I. L'Envoy p. xiii, I should misinform you grossly if I left you to infer that his collections were a heap of incoherent miscellanea. 1897 J. W. Clark Barnwell Introd. 11 Miscellanea likely to be useful for reference. |