miscellanist

miscellanist
Having the characteristics of a miscellany.

Punjab Notes and Queries . . . was ethnographic and miscellanist in nature, but its organization was confused.

2. noun
An author or editor of one or more miscellanies; one who produces written works having a wide range of forms or kinds of content.

Leigh Hunt tried almost every conceivable kind of literature, including a historical novel. . . . All this we may not unkindly brush away, and consider him first as a poet, secondly as a critic, and thirdly as what can be best, though rather unphilosophically, called a miscellanist.

Syn: miscellanarian

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