centonismn.

Brit.

/ˈsɛntənɪz(ə)m/, U.S.

/ˈsɛntəˌnɪz(ə)m/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin centōn- , cento , -ism suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin centōn-, cento cento n. + -ism suffix. Compare earlier centonize v.

The action or practice of incorporating pre-existing elements into a literary composition or other work; an example of this. Cf. cento n. 1, centoism n. at cento n. Derivatives.

ΘΚΠ

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

cento?1529

tessellation1813

centonism1837

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

centonism1837

centoism1842

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 268 Not too ambitiously chosen, nor in the manner called Centonism.

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. viii. 537 Tassoni..has ridiculed its centonism, or studious incorporation of lines from Petrarch.

1859 Sat. Rev. 8 257/1 Warton seems to have imagined the text of Comus, Lycidas, etc., to have been little more than a centonism of borrowed thoughts.

1911 J. Brown in H. Tennyson Tennyson & Friends 450 The sonnets here printed will show to all competent judges how fully he had imbibed the spirit, without servile centonism, of the best writers in that style of composition who flourished in the sixteenth century.

1996 F. Meltzer in M. P. Steinberg W. Benjamin & Demands Hist. vii. 163 What Stendhal practiced surreptitiously, centonism, is what Benjamin calls for: a new practice of writing.

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

单词	centonism
释义	centonismn. Brit. /ˈsɛntənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈsɛntəˌnɪz(ə)m/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin centōn- , cento , -ism suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin centōn-, cento cento n. + -ism suffix. Compare earlier centonize v. The action or practice of incorporating pre-existing elements into a literary composition or other work; an example of this. Cf. cento n. 1, centoism n. at cento n. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > original > not cento?1529 tessellation1813 centonism1837 society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > [noun] > action or practice of composing > patching from others' work centonism1837 centoism1842 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 268 Not too ambitiously chosen, nor in the manner called Centonism. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. viii. 537 Tassoni..has ridiculed its centonism, or studious incorporation of lines from Petrarch. 1859 Sat. Rev. 8 257/1 Warton seems to have imagined the text of Comus, Lycidas, etc., to have been little more than a centonism of borrowed thoughts. 1911 J. Brown in H. Tennyson Tennyson & Friends 450 The sonnets here printed will show to all competent judges how fully he had imbibed the spirit, without servile centonism, of the best writers in that style of composition who flourished in the sixteenth century. 1996 F. Meltzer in M. P. Steinberg W. Benjamin & Demands Hist. vii. 163 What Stendhal practiced surreptitiously, centonism, is what Benjamin calls for: a new practice of writing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1837
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