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Definition of "collectanea" []

  • A selection of passages from one or more authors; an anthology. (noun-plural)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "collectanea" in a sentence
  • "In 1500 he published a little book, Adagiorum collectanea, an anthology of proverbs and sayings derived from classical sources, a slim little volume with only 818 items, all taken from Latin sources."
  • "Iulii Solini collectanea rerum memorabilium, ed. Theodor Mommsen (Berlin, 1864), 17."
  • "Many other curious specimens are in my collectanea, among them: “one swaller don’t make no summer, ” “I never seen nothing I would of rather saw, ” and “once a child gets burnt once it won’t never stick its hand in no fire no more, ” and so on."
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