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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 577 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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. It is a See also:common See also:title in the literature of the 17th and 18th centuries. The word is an See also:adaptation of See also:Lat. miscellanea (from miscellaneus, mixed, miscere, to mix), used in this sense by See also:Tertullian, Miscellanea Ptolemaei (Tert. adv. Val. 12); the See also:ordinary use of the word in Latin was for a dish of broken meats, applied by See also:Juvenal (xi. 20) to the coarse See also:food of See also:gladiators. 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 See also:grain, especially See also:rye and See also:wheat. This, however, is really from the O. Fr. mesteillon; See also:Late Lat. mistilio, formed from mistus, past participle of miscere, to mix, mingle.

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