multiversant

English

Etymology

From multi- + Latin versans, present participle. See versant.

Adjective

multiversant (comparative more multiversant, superlative most multiversant)

1. Turning into many shapes; assuming many forms; protean.
   • 1890 November 1, Walter Gorn Old, “letter”, in The Globe:

     The effect of these methods upon the physical constitution is very deleterious, and the system has never been recognised as part of Theosophy, which is neither "theological dilettantism" nor Hatha Yoga, but the wisdom-religion of the ancient Sages, which underlies, as a basic truth, all the multiversant creeds and theologies of the past and present.

   • 1960, Benninghoff, Special Publication - Issue 14, page 73:

     That succinct statement reminds us that high frequency of vegetative reproduction in multiversant species and low densities of pauciversant species populations may protect each against what Muller (1950) called load of mutations (which in general depresses the adaptive ability of the population).

References

• “multiversant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.