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Longfellow.

3. The state of being many;
numerousness.

They came as grasshoppers for
multitude.

Judg. vi. 5.

The multitude, the populace; the mass of
men.

Syn. -- Throng; crowd; assembly; assemblage; commonalty;
swarm; populace; vulgar. See Throng.

Mul`ti*tu"di*na*ry (?), a.
Multitudinous.

Mul`ti*tu"di*nous (?), a.
1. Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number
or condition; as, multitudinous waves. "The
multitudinous seas." Shak.

A renewed jingling of multitudinous
chains.

G. Kennan.

2. Of or pertaining to a multitude.
"The multitudinous tongue." Shak.

-- Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ly, adv. --
Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ness, n.

{ Mul*tiv"a*gant (?), Mul*tiv"a*gous (?), }
a. [L. multivagus; multus much +
vagus wandering; cf.

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