florilegium
IPA: fɫˈɑrʌɫˈɛdʒʌm
noun
- A collection of flowers.
- An anthology, particularly of excerpts from larger works.
- (Christianity) A patristic anthology.
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Examples of "florilegium" in Sentences
- When Josh asked me to make a Sarah Palin florilegium, I didn't blink.
- SIGLO: FREEDOM - a florilegium of old and new writers and illustrators, edited by Vin and myself
- 14 To prepare their sons for this challenge, Leonardo and Federico each bequeathed a florilegium.
- Like the florilegium, the practice of aedificatio built personal character and established guiding principles for everyday life.
- Florilegia (Lat., florilegium, an anthology) are systematic collections of excerpts (more or less copious) from the works of the
- Note 18: A florilegium is basically the contents of someone's memory, set forth as a kind of study-guide for the formation of others 'memories ....
- 8Pedagogically, a florilegium enabled students to envision memory as a garden, carefully plotted for seeds and cuttings collected from other exemplary lives and works.
- This is the Balkan - a florilegium of contradictions within contraventions, the mawkish and the jaded, the charitable and the deleterious, the feckless and the bumptious, evanescent and exotic,
- But let us close our florilegium and attempt to illustrate Jargon by the converse method of taking a famous piece of English (say Hamlets soliloquy) and remoulding a few lines of it in this fashion: To be, or the contrary?
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