Anthological

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to anthology; consisting of extracts from different authors. not-comparable, usually

    "1691, Anthony Wood, Robert Stafford, entry in Athenae Oxonienses: An Exact Hiſtory of All the Writers and Biſhops Who have had their Education in the Univerſity of Oxford 1500—1690, Volume 1, page 485/486, He publiſhed, A Geographical and Anthological deſcription of all the Empires and Kingdoms, both of Continent and Iſlands in this Terreſtial Globe, &c. Lond. 1618."

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"1691, Anthony Wood, Robert Stafford, entry in Athenae Oxonienses: An Exact Hiſtory of All the Writers and Biſhops Who have had their Education in the Univerſity of Oxford 1500—1690, Volume 1, page 485/486, He publiſhed, A Geographical and Anthological deſcription of all the Empires and Kingdoms, both of Continent and Iſlands in this Terreſtial Globe, &c. Lond. 1618."

Etymology

From anthology + -ical.

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