omnigenous

English

Etymology

From Latin omniqenus, from omnis (“all”) + genus (“kind”).

Adjective

omnigenous (not comparable)

  1. Consisting of all kinds.
    • 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Celestial Railroad”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
      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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “omnigenous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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