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adjective

Fragmentary adj.

Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire.

(Geol.) Composed of the fragments of other rocks.

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Etymology of 'Fragmentary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fragmentary" Quotes from Famous Books

... droned on about some of the niceties of Ovid's language, fragmentary sentences of this letter recurred to Paulus and he wondered what his father's friend would think of him could he accurately read his desires for pleasure. Certainly the shows of the Amphitheatre seemed remote enough here under the cool, grey branches, ...

— Roads from Rome • Anne C. E. Allinson

... of the entire system of Heraclitus is of course so fragmentary that we can only speak of this, as of many other points, with great caution. The same is true, although in a lesser degree, of the system of Anaxagoras. His nous, if we translate it by mind, is more comprehensive than Logos. ...

— The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour • Friedrich Max Mueller

... compared it with the other paper. She saw at once that the lines which she had translated were only fragmentary portions that happened to read from left to right. Doubt was impossible, and this which Obed Chute gave her was the truth. She laid the paper down, and looked thoughtfully away. There were several things here ...

— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille

... happy to say," I answered, "that I am so well familiar with Mr. Dannevig's adventures as to be quite competent to supplement his fragmentary statements. I shall be very ...

— Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

... confession, fragmentary in detail but synthetic in range, of a young man of high impulses but weak determination. In its over-emphasis upon errors of judgment, as well as upon real if exaggerated misdeeds, it has all the crudeness of youth. An almost fantastic self-consciousness is the ...

— Life of Robert Browning • William Sharp

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