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Webster 1913 Edition
Anthological
Anˊtho-log′ic-al
,Adj.
Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets.
He published a geographical and
anthological
description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe. Wood.
Webster 1828 Edition
Anthological
ANTHOLOG'ICAL
,Adj.
Definition 2024
anthological
anthological
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Adjective
anthological (not generally comparable, comparative more anthological, superlative most anthological)
- Of or pertaining to anthology; consisting of extracts from different authors.
- 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[sic] Globe, &c. Lond. 1618.
- He publiſhed,
- 1945, Seán O'Faoláin, Peadar O'Donnell (editors), The Bell, Volume 11, page 1099,
- Its comments on some of the more anthological extracts from the Majority Report of the Banking Commission are particularly salutary.
- 2001, Philip S. Alexander, 10: Torah and Salvation in Tannaitic Literature, D. A. Carson, Peter Thomas O'Brien, Mark A. Seifrid (editors), Justification and Variegated Nomism, Volume I: The Complexities of Second Temple Judaism, page 288,
- The other Tannaitic Midrashim, the Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael, Sipra and Sipre Numbers, are much more anthological in character, less tightly argued.
- 2007, Ruth Langer, Biblical Texts in Jewish Prayers: Their History and Function, Albert Gerhards, Clemens Leonhard (edited), Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship: New Insights Into Its History and Interaction, page 77,
- Clues to this arise from discerning the compositional logic of the interlinked meanings of the cento, sometimes as elaborated upon in the more anthological Áorilegium structure.
- 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,
Translations
pertaining to anthologies
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