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MISCELLANY , a See also: term applied to a single See also: book containing articles, See also: treatises or other writings dealing with a variety of different subjects
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It is a See also: common title in the literature of the 17th and 18th centuries
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The word is an adaptation of See also: Lat. miscellanea (from miscellaneus, mixed, miscere, to mix), used in this sense by See also: Tertullian, Miscellanea Ptolemaei (Tert. adv
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Val
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12); the ordinary use of the word in Latin was for a dish of broken meats, applied by Juvenal (xi
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20) to the coarse See also: food of gladiators
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The Lat. miscellaneus has affected the See also: form of a word which is now usually spelled " maslin," applied to a mixture of various kinds of grain, especially See also: rye and See also: wheat
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This, however, is really from the O
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Fr. mesteillon; See also: Late Lat. mistilio, formed from mistus, past participle of miscere, to mix, mingle
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