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MISCELLANY , a term
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title in the literature of the 17th and 18th centuries. The word is an adaptation of Lat. miscellanea (from miscellaneus, mixed, miscere, to mix), used in this sense by Tertullian, Miscellanea Ptolemaei (Tert. adv. Val. 12); the ordinary use of the word in Latin was for a dish of broken meats, applied by Juvenal (xi. 20) to the coarse food of gladiators
The Lat. miscellaneus has affected the form of a word which is now usually spelled " maslin," applied to a mixture of various kinds of grain , especially rye and wheat. This, however, is really from the O. Fr. mesteillon; Late
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