Eclectic

ek-lek′tik, adj. selecting or borrowing: choosing the best out of everything: broad, the opposite of exclusive.— n. one who selects opinions from different systems, esp. in philosophy.— adv. Eclec′tically .— n. Eclec′ticism , the practice of an eclectic: the doctrine of the Eclec′tics , a name applied to certain Greek thinkers in the 2d and 1st centuries B.C. , later to Leibnitz and Cousin. [Gr. eklektikos — ek , out, legein , to choose.]