eclectic

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles.
• adjective Made up of or combining elements from a variety of sources.
• noun One that follows an eclectic method.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Selecting; choosing; not confined to or following any one model or system, but selecting and appropriating whatever is considered best in all.
• A practitioner of the American school of eclectic medicine.
• noun One who, in whatever department of knowledge, not being convinced of the fundamental principles of any existing system, culls from the teachings of different schools such doctrines as seem to him probably true, conformable to good sense, wholesome in practice, or recommended by other secondary considerations; one who holds that opposing schools are right in their distinctive doctrines, wrong only in their opposition to one another.
• noun Specifically— A follower of the ancient eclectic philosophy.
• noun In the early church, a Christian who believed the doctrine of Plato to be conformable to the spirit of the gospel.
• noun In medicine, a practitioner of eclectic medicine, either ancient or modern; an eclectic physician.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who follows an eclectic method.
• adjective Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems.
• adjective Consisting, or made up, of what is chosen or selected
• adjective (Paint.) See Bolognese school, under Bolognese.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.
• adjective Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.
• noun Someone who selects according to the eclectic method.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
• noun someone who selects according to the eclectic method