Va"ried (?), a. Changed; altered; various; diversified; as, a varied
experience; varied interests; varied scenery. — Va"ried*ly, adv.
The varied fields of science, ever new.
Cowper.
Va"ri*e*gate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Variegated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Variegating.] [L. variegatus, p. p. of variegare to variegate; varius
various + agere to move, make. See Various, and Agent.] To diversify in
external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to
streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors.
The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to
the beauty of the stone.
Woodward.
Va"ri*e*ga`ted (?), a. Having marks or patches of different colors; as,
variegated leaves, or flowers.
Ladies like variegated tulips show.
Pope.
Va`ri*e*ga"tion (?), n. The act of variegating or diversifying, or the
state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors.
Va"ri*er (?), n. [From Vary.] A wanderer; one who strays in search of
variety. [Poetic]
Pious variers from the church.
Tennyson.
Va*ri"e*tal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a variety; characterizing a
variety; constituting a variety, in distinction from an individual or
species.
Perplexed in determining what differences to consider as specific, and
what as varietal.
Darwin.
||Va*ri"e*tas (?), n. [L.] A variety; — used in giving scientific
||names, and often abbreviated to var.
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Va*ri"e*ty (?), n.; pl. Varieties (#). [L. varietas: cf. F. variété.
See Various.]
1. The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of
different things; diversity; multifariousness.
Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty.
South.
The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light.
Sir I. Newton.
For earth this variety from heaven.
Milton.
There is a variety in the tempers of good men.
Atterbury.