Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural A selection of passages from one or more authors; an anthology.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A selection of passages from various authors, usually made for the purpose of instruction; a miscellany.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A selective
collection ofpassages from varioussources or by variousauthors ; ananthology
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1500 he published a little book, Adagiorum collectanea, an anthology of proverbs and sayings derived from classical sources, a slim little volume with only 818 items, all taken from Latin sources.
Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008
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Iulii Solini collectanea rerum memorabilium, ed. Theodor Mommsen (Berlin, 1864), 17.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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In the collectanea of Judge J.C. Ruppenthal, of Russell, Kansas, a very careful observer, are many curious specimens.
Chapter 10. Proper Names in America. 1. Surnames Henry Louis 1921
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Some of the more familiar conjugations of verbs in the American common speech, as recorded by Charters or Lardner or derived from my own collectanea, are here set down:
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 3. The Verb Henry Louis 1921
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Thus I find mazuma in a Word-List from Kansas, from the collectanea of Judge J.C. Ruppenthal, of Russell, Kansas, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, pt. v, 1916, p. 322.
Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 4. Foreign Influences Today Henry Louis 1921
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Many other curious specimens are in my collectanea, among them: one swaller dont make no summer, I never seen nothing I would of rather saw, and once a child gets burnt once it wont never stick its hand in no fire no more, and so on.
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 8. The Double Negative Henry Louis 1921
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This volume of collectanea is divided into two parts.
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Dunelmensis opera et collectanea, containing everything ever ascribed to him except the Historia ecclesiae Dunelmensis, ed. with introduction by HINDE in Surtees Soc.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The completed portions pertain mainly to the first two acts; for the rest we have an immense mass of schemes, arguments, excerpts and collectanea.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901
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The completed portions pertain mainly to the first two acts; for the rest we have an immense mass of schemes, arguments, excerpts and collectanea.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886
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