Anthological
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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