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Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.

Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor.

Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. This checkered narrative. Macaulay.

Capable of being diversified or varied. Boyle.

ariety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects. Separated and diversified on from another. Locke. Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature. I. Taylor.

Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects. Dotted note (Mus.), a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes. -- Dotted rest, a…

Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases. J. A. Symonds.

Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold. There is a multifarious artifice in the structure of the meanest animal. Dr. H. More.

An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.

of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits.

. it is impossible for detached papers to have a general run, or long continuance, if not diversified with humor. Addison.

A natural spot of a color different from the gound. Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains. Pope.

To diversify aggain what is already diversified. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Diversified by squares; done in mosaic; tessellated. [Obs.] Sir R. Atkyns (1712).

Changed; altered; various; diversified; as, a varied experience; varied interests; varied scenery. -- Va"ried*ly, adv. The varied fields of science, ever new. Cowper.

The act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors.

Variegated; diversified; not monotonous. A happy rural seat of various view. Milton.