centon.

Brit.

/ˈsɛntəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈsɛnˌtoʊ/

Inflections: Plural centos, centoes.

Forms: 1500s–1600s centon, 1500s–1600s centones (plural), 1600s– cento, 1800s– centone.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin centōn-, cento.

Etymology: < classical Latin centōn-, cento (plural centōnes) quilt, blanket, or curtain, made of old garments stitched together, in post-classical Latin also a literary patchwork, poem made up of various verses (4th cent. in cento nuptialis, title of a poem by Ausonius), further etymology uncertain (see below). Compare Middle French, French centon literary patchwork (1570), Italian centone patchwork quilt (a1292), literary patchwork (1560).Sanskrit kanthā ‘patched garment’ and Old High German hadara ‘rag, woollen cloth, fabric made from animal hair’ (Middle High German hader rag, German (now regional) Hader rag, floorcloth, scraps of textile) have been suggested as possible cognates, although both pose semantic and formal problems. In plural form centones after the Latin plural form; in form centone after Italian centone.

a. A literary text or composition consisting of quotations or sections taken from other works; a compilation or digest of pre-existing material; a collection.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > original > not

cento?1529

tessellation1813

centonism1837

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > types of poem according to form > [noun] > composite poem from various sources

cento?1529

?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. iv. sig. E Wryters of cronicles saye that Theodosia..was as noble by her lernyng and vertue..as by her Empire: & y^e makynges y^t be taken out of Homer named centones [L. Homero-centron] be called hers.

?1565 A. Hartwell in tr. W. Haddon Sight of Portugall Pearle Pref. sig. B viii^v Euen so, as he in these his centons or fragmentes impugneth our religion, might he thunder against Herostrotus.

1595 T. Lodge Fig for Momus To Rdr. sig. A3^v My Satyres..if they passe well, the whole Centon of them, alreadie in my hands shall sodainly bee published.

1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 11 Quilted..out of shreds of divers Poets, such as Schollers do call a Cento.

1646 Bp. J. Taylor Apol. Litvrgie Pref. §16 A very Cento composed out of the Massbook, Pontifical, Breviaries, Manuals, and Portuises of the Roman Church.

1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 95 The Grecians..in their Compositions..affected a kind of Medley or Cento.

1814 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 469 It is scarcely practicable for a man to write in the ornamented style..without finding his poem, against his will and without his previous consciousness, a cento of lines that had pre-existed in other works.

1842 E. B. Barrett Some Acct. Greek Christian Poets in Athenæum 12 Mar. 229/3 The obliterative sponge, we hear of in Æschylus, has washed out every verse except this cento's ‘damned spot’.

1927 F. J. E. Raby Hist. Christian-Latin Poetry iii. 96 Luxorius..shows a vicious taste for the cento and for epanaleptic verses.

2005 Independent 16 Aug. 27/3 There are passages of Paradise Lost which are basically patchworks of great literature, or, in the technical term, a cento.

b. More generally: any work, composition, argument, etc., consisting (or considered to consist) of features, ideas, or pieces of information drawn from other sources.Frequently with disparaging implication.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture

mingingOE

mungc1175

meddlingc1384

mellaya1400

mixture?a1425

commixtion?a1439

medley1440

brothc1515

mingly1545

mingle1548

maslin1574

miscellane1582

commixture1590

flaumpaump1593

salad1603

miscellany1609

common1619

cento1625

misturea1626

mixtil1654

concrete1656

contemperation1664

ragout1672

crasis1677

alloy1707

mixtible1750

galimatias1762

misc.1851

syllabub1859

mixtry1862

cocktail1868

blend1883

admix1908

mix-up1918

mix1959

meld1973

katogo1994

1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 24 You have laid together into one Cento things broken and dismembred like Absyrtus's limbs.

1701 J. Edwards Free Disc. conc. Truth & Error vii. 228 Book of the City of God is a Strange Cento, a Piece made of Divers Shreds in a Disturbed manner.

1780 T. Jefferson Corr. in Wks. (1859) I. 264 Henry's map of Virginia..is a mere cento of blunders.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. viii. 194 A cento of sounding common-places.

1836 Music. Libr. Suppl. May 82/2 An overture ought not to be a pot-pourri;..a cento of melodies taken from the most unlike situations or passages of the opera, and lightly stitched together.

1841 H. F. Chorley Music & Manners France & Germany I. iv. 101 The thoughtful lover of paintings will surely prefer a Fra Beato, or a Francesco Francia..to the loveliest and most correct cento of the perfections and graces of all the great masters.

1975 J. D. Durant R. B. Sheridan v. 83 Isaac Bickerstaffe's Love in a Village, a cento of songs composed chiefly by Thomas Arne, with borrowings from George Frederick Handel..and a couple of traditional Irish airs.

1987 R. Stoneman Land of Lost Gods iii. 40 Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne is a cento of ancient motifs.

2008 C. Hailey Campsite v. 111 The Guide to the Southernmost State was..a cento of fragmentary bits of culture, folklore, architecture, and history allowing for an uncanny evaluation of disparate elements in a common work.

†c. An assortment, a selection; a mixture, a medley. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture > of persons, etc.

cento1627

1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 158 Amongst the many Centones of reuolters of Poperie.

1647 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 217 The Moabites and the Agarens, Gebal and Ammon..a cento and a rhapsody of uncircumcised nations.

1659 J. Evelyn Char. Eng. 28 The madness of the Anabaptists..and a Cento of unheard of Heresies besides, which, at present, deform the once renowned Church of England.

1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire ii. 36 The enormous antlers are no longer to be seen, and that, even if visible, they would not be worth looking at, being merely a cento of various horns united in inlaid work.

1849 Punch 17 144/2 This is the Thames with its cento of stink.

1858 R. J. MacGeorge Tales, Sketches & Lyrics iii. 102 The only harvest which I reaped from my manipulations was a cento of thickly articulated chidings.

†2. A patchwork; a piece of patchwork used as a garment, bedcover, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > other > article of

surplice1382

cento1610

fit1831

Tom and Jerry1832

breaster1841

princess cut1877

frump1886

trail1896

turn-down1896

peekaboo1908

see-through1937

zip-up1942

smart casual1943

classic1948

hipster1948

A-line1955

polo1967

tube1975

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xvii. xv. 642 Centones are peeces of cloath of diuerse colours; vsed any way, on the back, or on the bedde.

1633 J. Shirley Wittie Faire One ii. sig. D4^v His Apparell is a cento.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §13 There is under these Centoes and miserable outsides..a soule of the same alloy with our owne.

1751 R. O. Cambridge Scribleriad ii. 15 A Cento primarily signifies a cloak made of patches.

Derivatives

ˈcentoism n. the action or practice of making a cento or centos; spec. the practice of incorporating pre-existing elements into a literary composition or other work (cf. sense 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > [noun] > action or practice of composing > patching from others' work

centonism1837

centoism1842

1842 E. B. Barrett Some Acct. Greek Christian Poets in Athenæum 5 Mar. 210/2 The tragedy is..a specimen of centoism, which is the adaptation of the phraseology of one work to the construction of another.

1904 J. R. Harris in J. Hastings & J. A. Selbie Dict. Bible V. 67 Sibyllism is closely related to Centoism, and borrows lines and expressions freely from Homer.

1986 D. Kadir Questing Fictions ii. 67 The heterogeneous centoism, the monstrous heterogeneity of abysmal decenteredness where Rufus' quest foundered vertiginously.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	cento
释义	centon. Brit. /ˈsɛntəʊ/, U.S. /ˈsɛnˌtoʊ/ Inflections: Plural centos, centoes. Forms: 1500s–1600s centon, 1500s–1600s centones (plural), 1600s– cento, 1800s– centone. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin centōn-, cento. Etymology: < classical Latin centōn-, cento (plural centōnes) quilt, blanket, or curtain, made of old garments stitched together, in post-classical Latin also a literary patchwork, poem made up of various verses (4th cent. in cento nuptialis, title of a poem by Ausonius), further etymology uncertain (see below). Compare Middle French, French centon literary patchwork (1570), Italian centone patchwork quilt (a1292), literary patchwork (1560).Sanskrit kanthā ‘patched garment’ and Old High German hadara ‘rag, woollen cloth, fabric made from animal hair’ (Middle High German hader rag, German (now regional) Hader rag, floorcloth, scraps of textile) have been suggested as possible cognates, although both pose semantic and formal problems. In plural form centones after the Latin plural form; in form centone after Italian centone. 1. a. A literary text or composition consisting of quotations or sections taken from other works; a compilation or digest of pre-existing material; a collection. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > original > not cento?1529 tessellation1813 centonism1837 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > types of poem according to form > [noun] > composite poem from various sources cento?1529 ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. iv. sig. E Wryters of cronicles saye that Theodosia..was as noble by her lernyng and vertue..as by her Empire: & y^e makynges y^t be taken out of Homer named centones [L. Homero-centron] be called hers. ?1565 A. Hartwell in tr. W. Haddon Sight of Portugall Pearle Pref. sig. B viii^v Euen so, as he in these his centons or fragmentes impugneth our religion, might he thunder against Herostrotus. 1595 T. Lodge Fig for Momus To Rdr. sig. A3^v My Satyres..if they passe well, the whole Centon of them, alreadie in my hands shall sodainly bee published. 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 11 Quilted..out of shreds of divers Poets, such as Schollers do call a Cento. 1646 Bp. J. Taylor Apol. Litvrgie Pref. §16 A very Cento composed out of the Massbook, Pontifical, Breviaries, Manuals, and Portuises of the Roman Church. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 95 The Grecians..in their Compositions..affected a kind of Medley or Cento. 1814 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 469 It is scarcely practicable for a man to write in the ornamented style..without finding his poem, against his will and without his previous consciousness, a cento of lines that had pre-existed in other works. 1842 E. B. Barrett Some Acct. Greek Christian Poets in Athenæum 12 Mar. 229/3 The obliterative sponge, we hear of in Æschylus, has washed out every verse except this cento's ‘damned spot’. 1927 F. J. E. Raby Hist. Christian-Latin Poetry iii. 96 Luxorius..shows a vicious taste for the cento and for epanaleptic verses. 2005 Independent 16 Aug. 27/3 There are passages of Paradise Lost which are basically patchworks of great literature, or, in the technical term, a cento. b. More generally: any work, composition, argument, etc., consisting (or considered to consist) of features, ideas, or pieces of information drawn from other sources.Frequently with disparaging implication. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture mingingOE mungc1175 meddlingc1384 mellaya1400 mixture?a1425 commixtion?a1439 medley1440 brothc1515 mingly1545 mingle1548 maslin1574 miscellane1582 commixture1590 flaumpaump1593 salad1603 miscellany1609 common1619 cento1625 misturea1626 mixtil1654 concrete1656 contemperation1664 ragout1672 crasis1677 alloy1707 mixtible1750 galimatias1762 misc.1851 syllabub1859 mixtry1862 cocktail1868 blend1883 admix1908 mix-up1918 mix1959 meld1973 katogo1994 1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 24 You have laid together into one Cento things broken and dismembred like Absyrtus's limbs. 1701 J. Edwards Free Disc. conc. Truth & Error vii. 228 Book of the City of God is a Strange Cento, a Piece made of Divers Shreds in a Disturbed manner. 1780 T. Jefferson Corr. in Wks. (1859) I. 264 Henry's map of Virginia..is a mere cento of blunders. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. viii. 194 A cento of sounding common-places. 1836 Music. Libr. Suppl. May 82/2 An overture ought not to be a pot-pourri;..a cento of melodies taken from the most unlike situations or passages of the opera, and lightly stitched together. 1841 H. F. Chorley Music & Manners France & Germany I. iv. 101 The thoughtful lover of paintings will surely prefer a Fra Beato, or a Francesco Francia..to the loveliest and most correct cento of the perfections and graces of all the great masters. 1975 J. D. Durant R. B. Sheridan v. 83 Isaac Bickerstaffe's Love in a Village, a cento of songs composed chiefly by Thomas Arne, with borrowings from George Frederick Handel..and a couple of traditional Irish airs. 1987 R. Stoneman Land of Lost Gods iii. 40 Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne is a cento of ancient motifs. 2008 C. Hailey Campsite v. 111 The Guide to the Southernmost State was..a cento of fragmentary bits of culture, folklore, architecture, and history allowing for an uncanny evaluation of disparate elements in a common work. †c. An assortment, a selection; a mixture, a medley. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture > of persons, etc. cento1627 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 158 Amongst the many Centones of reuolters of Poperie. 1647 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 217 The Moabites and the Agarens, Gebal and Ammon..a cento and a rhapsody of uncircumcised nations. 1659 J. Evelyn Char. Eng. 28 The madness of the Anabaptists..and a Cento of unheard of Heresies besides, which, at present, deform the once renowned Church of England. 1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire ii. 36 The enormous antlers are no longer to be seen, and that, even if visible, they would not be worth looking at, being merely a cento of various horns united in inlaid work. 1849 Punch 17 144/2 This is the Thames with its cento of stink. 1858 R. J. MacGeorge Tales, Sketches & Lyrics iii. 102 The only harvest which I reaped from my manipulations was a cento of thickly articulated chidings. †2. A patchwork; a piece of patchwork used as a garment, bedcover, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > other > article of surplice1382 cento1610 fit1831 Tom and Jerry1832 breaster1841 princess cut1877 frump1886 trail1896 turn-down1896 peekaboo1908 see-through1937 zip-up1942 smart casual1943 classic1948 hipster1948 A-line1955 polo1967 tube1975 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xvii. xv. 642 Centones are peeces of cloath of diuerse colours; vsed any way, on the back, or on the bedde. 1633 J. Shirley Wittie Faire One ii. sig. D4^v His Apparell is a cento. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §13 There is under these Centoes and miserable outsides..a soule of the same alloy with our owne. View more context for this quotation 1751 R. O. Cambridge Scribleriad ii. 15 A Cento primarily signifies a cloak made of patches. Derivatives ˈcentoism n. the action or practice of making a cento or centos; spec. the practice of incorporating pre-existing elements into a literary composition or other work (cf. sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > [noun] > action or practice of composing > patching from others' work centonism1837 centoism1842 1842 E. B. Barrett Some Acct. Greek Christian Poets in Athenæum 5 Mar. 210/2 The tragedy is..a specimen of centoism, which is the adaptation of the phraseology of one work to the construction of another. 1904 J. R. Harris in J. Hastings & J. A. Selbie Dict. Bible V. 67 Sibyllism is closely related to Centoism, and borrows lines and expressions freely from Homer. 1986 D. Kadir Questing Fictions ii. 67 The heterogeneous centoism, the monstrous heterogeneity of abysmal decenteredness where Rufus' quest foundered vertiginously. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?1529
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