fragmentary

CEFRC1

/frˈæɡməˌntɛri/

adjective

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Fragmentary evidence suggests that he died in a foreign country.
Of this empire less is known than of other domains. From time to time, fragmentary knowledge has been carried thence by some observant traveler.

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Of this empire less is known than of other domains. From time to time, fragmentary knowledge has been carried thence by some observant traveler.
1868, Overland Monthly, Samuel Carson, page 204
Because the effects of which could not be contested. Because this little group of scientists, drunk with their fragmentary knowledge proudly deemed that they could forego everything that was not rational, they decreed that all humanity should also go without. They never dreamed that the science in which they had put their faith would soon be completely upset.
1923, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Primitive Mentality, The Macmillan Company, page 340
Speaking of his work on the cephalopods as a whole, Thompson says: “ This is far more than a mass of fragmentary observations gleaned from fishermen. It is a plain orderly treatise on the ways and habits, the varieties, and the anatomical structure of an entire group.”
1925, William A. Locy, The Growth of Biology, Henry Holt and Company, page 28

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From fragment + -ary.