"Let us now if ever remove from ourselves multiform knowledge, exterminate all the variety of life, and in perfect quiet approach near to the cause of all things.

It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air.

To one who loves Nature for himself, has his own discovering eyes for her multiform and many-mooded beauty, it is distasteful to have some excursionist effect of spectacular scenery labelled and thrust upon him with a showman's raptures; and, in revulsion from the hypocritical admiration of the vulgar, he turns to the less obvious and less melodramatic beauty of the natural world.

Surely there is not another writer whose words would so often admit of such multiform and varied interpretationeach form good, and true, and suitable to the context!

Adj. diversified varied, irregular, uneven, rough &c 256; multifarious; multiform &c 81; of various kinds; all manner of, all sorts of, all kinds of.

polymorphous, multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous^, multiplex; heterogeneous, diversified, dissimilar, various, varied, variform^; manifold, many-sided; variegated, motley, mosaic; epicene, indiscriminate, desultory, irregular; mixed, different, assorted, mingled, odd, diverse, divers; all manner of; of every description, of all sorts and kinds; et hoc genus omne [Lat.]; and what not?

Thus have perished multiform openings for sublime effects, for interesting personal communications, for revelations of impressive faces that could not have offered themselves amongst the hurried and fluctuating groups of a railway station.

With all these multiform difficulties the new minister grappled with unflinching courage, and with conspicuous success.

In this way your subjects, reaping a multiform enjoyment from the public treasures, will be better disposed toward you, and you will have an abundant supply of the best men on each occasion for all necessary lines of work.

Here, then, in a New England town, Douglass began the life of a freeman, from which, relieved now of the incubus of slavery, he soon emerged into the career for which, in the providence of God, he seemed by his multiform experience to have been especially fitted.

Besides this stability of natural things, the multiform interests of the two sections would, in the main, continue as they are.

We know, full well, the outcry that will be made by multitudes, at these declarations; the multiform cavils, the flat denials, the charges of "exaggeration" and "falsehood" so often bandied, the sneers of affected contempt at the credulity that can believe such things, and the rage and imprecations against those who give them currency.

Besides this stability of natural things, the multiform interests of the two sections would, in the main, continue as they are.

We know, full well, the outcry that will be made by multitudes, at these declarations; the multiform cavils, the flat denials, the charges of "exaggeration" and "falsehood" so often bandied, the sneers of affected contempt at the credulity that can believe such things, and the rage and imprecations against those who give them currency.

"We Britons in our time have been remarkable borrowers, as our multiform Language may sufficiently shew.

"The multiform and amazing operations of the air-pump and the loadstone.

"WATTS: ib., w. Multiform.

Unlighted as yet, unpeopled, but gorgeous, multiform, sentinelled, and ready, it needed but the touch of the taper to set forth all the glories of art and wealth tenfolded by self-sacrifice for a hallowed cause.

But they are reflecting the many-coloured, multiform life of America, in journalism and in art.

We are to remember that nothing has been subjected to such multiform and grotesque perversion as Christianity.

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.

Had he been writing in his own name, he could not have uttered his inmost conviction more distinctly, or have given the clue to his intellectual life more openly than in the following verses: "I will look straight out, see things, not try to evade them: Fact shall be Fact for me; and the Truth the Truth as ever, Flexible, changeable, vague, and multiform and doubtful.

I have already in a previous chapter of these reminiscences given a letter from Mrs. Browning in which she speaks of Theodosia's "multiform faculty."

Her faculty was truly multiform.

Another instance of her "multiform faculty" was her learning landscape sketching.