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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Various

Va′ri·ous (vā′rĭ·ŭs), a. [L. varius. Cf. Vair.]

1. Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors.

So many and so various laws are given. Milton.

A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild. Byron.

2. Changeable; uncertain; inconstant; variable.

A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden.

The names of mixed modes . . . are very various. Locke.

3. Variegated; diversified; not monotonous.

A happy rural seat of various view. Milton.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.