Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to an anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts, especially from the poets.
- Treating of flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets.
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- adjective Pertaining to
anthology ; consisting ofextracts from differentauthors .
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Examples
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As I had no books at home (my own books, bought by myself, however with money borrowed from a friend, I would only have when I was 19) the Portuguese language textbooks, with their "anthological" character, were what opened to me the doors of literary fruition: even today I can recite poetry learnt in that distant era.
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Perhaps the victim is some kind of anthological expert and I am overreacting.
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As I had no books at home (my own books, bought by myself, however with money borrowed from a friend, I would only have when I was 19) the Portuguese language textbooks, with their “anthological” character, were what opened to me the doors of literary fruition: even today I can recite poetry learnt in that distant era.
August « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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As I had no books at home (my own books, bought by myself, however with money borrowed from a friend, I would only have when I was 19) the Portuguese language textbooks, with their “anthological” character, were what opened to me the doors of literary fruition: even today I can recite poetry learnt in that distant era.
josé saramago | death without interruptions « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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On top of that, Kring noted that "My original idea was more of an anthological vibe to it, where you regenerate the characters."
Tim Kring Blames Audience for the Suckage That is Heroes 2008
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The New Wave deserves recognition as well, but rather than get into a list of novels, I'll pick the anthological exemplar, Dangerous Visions.
MIND MELD: What are the Most Controversial SF/F Novels of the Past & Present? 2008
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Perhaps we should soon expect someone to come up with an anthological resumé of such transparent excuses.
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Perhaps we should soon expect someone to come up with an anthological resumé of such transparent excuses.
Archive 2007-11-04 2007
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Revenant says he has read the Bible, but he clearly does not understand what it is, or what the "new" part means in New Testament, or the anthological aspect, or the literary aspect, or the folklorical aspect, or, in fact, any other aspect other than the idea that it is a set of facts that he -- as an intellectual, you understand -- disputes.
Jane Hamsher, get out your pitchfork. Ann Althouse 2009
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His album Thriller was the most commercially and critically successful non-anthological album in history, and is expected to remain that way in the future.
Ahmed Rehab: Michael Jackson: Why He's More Adored than Shakespeare 2009
rolig commented on the word anthological
In Russian literary criticism, an "anthological poem" (antologicheskoe stikhotvorenie) is one that is in some way modeled on the epigrams and fragments collected in the Greek Anthology. I wonder why this term never caught on in writing about English poetry?
December 8, 2007