Definitions
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- noun A collection of excerpts from written texts, especially works of literature.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
florilege , 2.
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- noun A
collection offlowers - noun An
anthology
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- noun an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Note 18: A florilegium is basically the contents of someone's memory, set forth as a kind of study-guide for the formation of others 'memories ....
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Like the florilegium, the practice of aedificatio built personal character and established guiding principles for everyday life.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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SIGLO: FREEDOM - a florilegium of old and new writers and illustrators, edited by Vin and myself
notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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SIGLO: FREEDOM - a florilegium of old and new writers and illustrators, edited by Vin and myself
Archive 2003-11-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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When Josh asked me to make a Sarah Palin florilegium, I didn't blink.
TPM: News Pages 2001
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This is the Balkan - a florilegium of contradictions within contraventions, the mawkish and the jaded, the charitable and the deleterious, the feckless and the bumptious, evanescent and exotic,
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters Samuel Vaknin
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But let us close our florilegium and attempt to illustrate Jargon by the converse method of taking a famous piece of English (say Hamlets soliloquy) and remoulding a few lines of it in this fashion: To be, or the contrary?
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Florilegia (Lat., florilegium, an anthology) are systematic collections of excerpts (more or less copious) from the works of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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14 To prepare their sons for this challenge, Leonardo and Federico each bequeathed a florilegium.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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8Pedagogically, a florilegium enabled students to envision memory as a garden, carefully plotted for seeds and cuttings collected from other exemplary lives and works.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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This type of carefully hand-curated collection was known as a florilegium – Latin for a gathering of flowers – because it contained the flowers of wisdom, carefully picked and arranged.
Medieval Minims Krista A. Murchison 2023
vanishedone commented on the word florilegium
A critic on The Book of Disquiet: 'What is this Livro do Desassossego ? Neither 'commonplace book', nor 'sketchbook', nor 'florilegium' will do. Imagine a fusion of Coleridge's notebooks and marginalia, of Valery's philosophic diary and of Robert Musil's voluminous journal... What we have is a haunting mosaic of dreams, psychological notations, autobiographical vignettes, shards of literary theory and criticism and maxims.'
June 19, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word florilegium
cf: Banks' Florilegium for an historic example brought forth in modern times.
January 11, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word florilegium
(n): a collection of botanical sketches, paintings, and/or reproductions depicting collected plants in their original form and colors.
January 11, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word florilegium
an earthburst (as opposed to a thunderburst)
November 12, 2011