a. [f. as prec. + -OUS.] Miscellaneous, indiscriminate, ‘hotchpotch.’ Also of a person: That makes a hotch-potch.
1615. [see BULLIMONG 1 b].
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., I. iii. 10. A farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sex, and ages.
1669. W. Simpson, Hydrol. Chym., 103. The stomach … becomes tantaliz’d by the farraginous mixtures of concretes.
1765. Warburton, Div. Legat., IV. iv. § 6, Notes (ed. 4), 131. The great farraginous body of Popish rites and ceremonies.
1799. Kirwan, Geol. Ess., 226. In some [mountains] different species [of stone] are jumbled together, these I call faraginous.
a. 1843. Southey, Doctor, cxxii. (1862), 301. The Laureate has somewhere in his farraginous notes … a story of certain Polish physicians who [etc.].
1863. Reade, in All Year Round, 3 Oct., 123/2. Bailey was one of the farraginous fools of the unscientific science.
