单词 | polyanthea |
释义 | polyanthean. Now rare (chiefly historical in later use). A collection of quotations or extracts from literature, esp. poetry; a commonplace book; an anthology. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > anthology pomander1530 posya1569 garland1612 polyanthea1618 florilegy1621 anthology1647 florilegium1647 florilege1651 spicilege1837 spicilegium1846 1618 J. Selden Hist. Tithes Pref. p. i Nor will it, I think, looke like what were patcht vp out of Postils, Polyantheas, common place books. 1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. Pref. sig. a ijv As destitute of all learning, as if our reading had never gone beyond a Polyanthea. 1670 Lex Talionis 21 There was a time when Nicity of Division, and the flowers of a Polyanthea were somewhat in fashion; but those days are long since done. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi Gen. Introd. sig. C2/1 History..hath had so many and mighty Commendations..that a tenth part of them Transcribed, would be a Furniture for a Polyanthea in Folio. 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. vi. iii. 507 In despair he fled at length to his Polyanthea. 1800 T. Carbry tr. A. Valsecchi Found. Relig. vii. 265 To what purpose has he drawn up that polyanthea of novels, and of examples? 1804 C. H. Wilson (title) The polyanthea: or, a collection of interesting fragments, in prose and verse. 1891 in Sir P. Sidney Def. Poesie (note) Frequent resort to the Polyanthea caused many a good quotation to be hackneyed. 1992 E. Rivers Muses & Masks iv. 112 A certain category of quotations in such a polyanthea, which was a well organized collection of topoi and doxa. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > want of originality > one who derives from a source > one who plagiarizes polyanthean1621 plagiarist1674 takera1677 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [adjective] > anthology anthological1607 polyanthean1621 anthologic?1780 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 38 My selfe, a poore Postillating Polyanthean Clergy-man. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 434 As we poore Breuiarists and Polyantheans of the Clergie vse to do. 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) i. ii. iii. xv. 120 [He] that by..some trivantly Polyanthean helpes, steales and gleanes a few notes from other mens Haruests. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1618 |
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