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单词 anthology
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anthologyn.

Brit. /anˈθɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ænˈθɑlədʒi/
Forms: 1600s anthologie, 1600s– anthology.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Greek ἀνθολόγιον ; French anthologie ; Latin anthologia ; antho- comb. form, -logy comb. form.
Etymology: Partly (in senses 1 and 4) < (i) Hellenistic Greek ἀνθολόγιον gathering of flowers, in Byzantine Greek also ‘collection of extracts’, in medieval Greek also ‘hymnal’ ( < ancient Greek ἀνθο- antho- comb. form + -λόγιον (see menologion n.); compare -y suffix4). Compare French anthologe breviary used in the Greek Orthodox Church (1704), and also post-classical Latin anthologion collection of extracts (1555 or earlier). Compare earlier menology n. Partly (in sense 2) < (ii) French anthologie (1574 in Middle French) ad its etymon (iii) post-classical Latin anthologia collection of poems (1536 or earlier) < Hellenistic Greek ἀνθολογία flower-gathering < ancient Greek ἀνθο- antho- comb. form + -λογια -logy comb. form. Partly (iv: in sense 3) < antho- comb. form + -logy comb. form. Compare ornithology n. 1, ornithology n. 2, zoology n., etc. Compare French anthologie (1750 in this sense). Compare earlier anthologic n., anthological adj. 2.Compare Spanish antología (second half of the 18th cent.), Italian antologia (a1698), German Anthologie (1725, in early use as †Anthologia with Latin inflectional endings), all earliest in the sense ‘collection of writings, especially of poems’.
1. A breviary, esp. one used in the Greek Orthodox Church. Obsolete.
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society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > music books > [noun] > hymnary
hymn-bookc900
hymnerc900
hymnal1537
anthology1621
songbooka1684
hymnary1888
hymnarium1924
society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > music book > church music > hymnbook
hymn-bookc900
hymnerc900
hymnal1537
anthology1621
hymnary1888
hymnarium1924
1621 S. Ward Life of Faith xiii. 106 Such as haue bene brought vp not onely in moralls of the heathen, subtilties of Scholemen, sentences and conceipts of Postilers rosaries destructories Anthologies.
1693 H. Hody Case of Sees Vacant vi. 87 In the Liturgies, the Menology, and the Anthology, of the Greek Church,..[Theodosius and Sabas] have, as two of the Sancti majorum gentium, their proper and peculiar Offices.
1725 J. Henley tr. B. de Montfaucon Antiq. Italy (ed. 2) xxviii. 293 He gave us a Breviary, printed by the Greeks, Ann. 1697. entituled, Άνθολόγιον τοῦ ὅλου, &c. i.e. an Anthology of the whole Year.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Anthology, in the Greek Church, a collection of devotional pieces.
2.
a. A published collection. Frequently in the titles of such collections.
(a) A collection of epigrams or other short poems written by various authors, chosen as being especially fine or appropriate. Frequently with reference to Greek collections of this type.In modern usage typically understood as a specific use of sense 2a(b); cf. quot. 1949 at that sense.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun] > book of poems
anthology1624
poetry-book1772
poem-book1807
verse-book1849
nonsense book1874
poetry reader1895
slim volume1920
slim vol1953
society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > anthology > of verse
anthology1624
1624 A. Holland Continued Inquisition 2 in J. Davies Scourge Paper-persecutors A Packe of Epigrams.., Whose vndigested mish-mash would affright The very Ghost of Martiall, and make Th'Authors of th'Anthologie to quake.
1640 E. Chilmead tr. J. Ferrand Ερωτομανια 334 This clause..is found..both in Diogenes Laertius, in his life, and also in the anthology [Fr. l'Anthologie].
1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. xiv. 472 [The sepulchral inscriptions]..of Meleager on his wife, in the Greek Anthology.
1793 J. Ritson (title) The English anthology.
1796 tr. J. G. Herder in Monthly Rev. 20 App. 512 Planudes gave a new form to the anthology of Kephalas. He omitted, he subdivided, he inserted at his pleasure.
1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. iii. 119 Elegant extracts, Anthologies, are sickly things: cut flowers have no vitality.
1992 P. A. Rosenmeyer Poetics of Imitation iv. 116 The group of poems was then incorporated into the larger context of the Palatine Anthology sometime between a.d. 930 and 950.
(b) Any published collection of writings, typically by various authors. Later also more generally: a printed collection of pictures, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > anthology
pomander1530
posya1569
garland1612
polyanthea1618
florilegy1621
anthology1647
florilegium1647
florilege1651
spicilege1837
spicilegium1846
1647 R. Grosse Royalty & Loyalty ii. 61 An Anthologie of never so excellent precepts, sentences and examples out of the garden of divine and humane writings.
1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects To Rdr. sig. b3 There's hony in his name, more in his book..; Make this Anthology Pantol'gy thine Ambrosian Purchas Nectar Divine.
1759 W. Harte Hist. Life Gustavus Adolphus II. 108 This anthology in politics.
1799 Brit. Critic May 488 A little Anthology of passages taken from the present volume of Letters.
1829 Times 30 June 9/5 (advt.) This day is published..The Anthology; an Annual Record Book for Youth.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. Pref. p. ix A kind of anthology from the writings of the leading mystics.
1929 (title) An anthology of Czechoslovak literature, selected and translated..by P. Selver.
1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four 44 Poems which had become ideologically offensive but which for one reason or another were to be retained in anthologies.
1992 M. Kitson in E. K. Waterhouse Painting in Brit. (ed. 5) 362/1 A useful anthology of painted views of country houses.
2004 Slightly Foxed Autumn 80 Mooching around a second-hand bookshop one afternoon, I came across a 1940s anthology containing a short story by him.
(c) A collection of songs selected from the recordings of various artists, or from across the works of one artist, and issued as one album, series, or boxed set.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > a song > [noun] > series or collection of songs
song cycle1870
anthology1950
1950 Billboard 1 Apr. 48/1 An exclusive contract has been signed with the Pro Musica Antiqua of Brussels, Belgium, for a 30-disk anthology of music from the 11th thru 16th centuries.
1967 Listener 3 Aug. 129 Some of the LPs that Sinatra began bringing out in the mid-Fifties..are virtually anthologies of pop songs from the previous 20 years.
1974 Country Life 12 Dec. 1857/3 The two-volume CBS Astaire solo anthology..are transfers of old Brunswick 78s and therefore more satisfying in purely phonographical terms.
2001 U.S. News & World Rep. 15 Jan. 43/2 There always seems to be..a double anthology, a previously unreleased live concert album or a tour of Beatlemania just around the corner.
b. In extended use. A grouping of related items, typically representing the best or most noteworthy examples of their type; an embodiment of the key aspects or features of something.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > collection
olio1655
anthology1846
1846 R. Bell Life G. Canning ii. 50 We have the satisfaction of retracing, in smooth and agreeable cadences, a whole anthology of truisms.
1878 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 170 Your social good..Is transient reflex of a prejudice, Anthology of causes and effects.
1884 ‘M. Field’ Callirrhoë ii. vii. 64 Her whole religion is an anthology of Olympic scandal.
1961 Listener 21 Dec. 1068/1 The quays..bore an anthology of western European coastal traffic: Bilbao, Stockholm, Hamburg, Glasgow.
1965 Listener 11 Nov. 760/1 Fry put on his second and even more demanding anthology of post-Impressionism.
2001 N.Y. Times 31 May f7/2 The house Mr. Lyndon designed for himself and Ms. Wingwall is an anthology of the signature features of the original Sea Ranch Condominium.
3. Originally: a treatise on flowers or the growing of flowers. In later use: the structure and characteristics of flowers; the scientific study or understanding of this. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > plants > botany > [noun] > book or treatise on plants > on specific types of plants
anthologic1601
anthology1658
Pomona1664
sylva1664
meconology1721
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Anthologie, a treating of flowrs, also a florid discourse.
1889 E. L. Greene Pittonia II. 47 He has impressed upon the minds of the beginners, a clear notion of what cruciferous plants, as to their anthology, should be like.
1911 H. H. Rusby Man. Struct. Bot. vii. 82 The fundamental principles of anthology are based upon the nature of the torus as a modified branch.
4. A collection of flowers. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > valued plant > flower or plant esteemed for its blossoms > collection of
florilegium1711
anthology1755
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Anthology, a collection of flowers.
1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 223 In the anthologies of earth..one flower beyond every other is liable to change, which flower is the countenance of woman.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and objective, as anthology editor, anthology piece, etc.
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1882 Manch. Guardian 2 June 3/4 The anthology editor is always vulnerable on the score of omission.
1922 in T. S. Eliot Let. 25 June (1988) I. 530 It practically gives him world rights, translation rights, periodical rights, anthology rights.
1935 Scrutiny 4 168 A favourite anthology-piece When the lamp is shattered.
1992 New Yorker 5 Oct. 53/2 [It] would have been a super episode of the HBO anthology series, ‘Tales from the Crypt’.
2001 W. Watkin In Process of Poetry vii. 203 Certainly it has not become an anthology piece and is probably in nobody's proposed canonical list.
C2. Originally: designating a film featuring excerpts of various other films, typically linked by a common theme or used to showcase the work of a particular studio or performer. In later use: designating a film featuring several individual stories, typically linked by a common theme or incident, and often told within a story which serves as a framing device; designating such works as a genre. Often in anthology film, anthology movie.Cf. portmanteau n. Compounds 2d, omnibus adj. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [adjective] > other types
costumed1851
foreign language1904
first run1910
Keystone1912
photodramatic1914
serial1915
coming of age1919
edge-of-your-seat1922
psychodramatic1927
omnibus1928
straight1936
low-budget1937
no-budget1937
screwball1937
Ealing1939
blockbusting1943
private eye1946
film noir1952
white telephone1952
portmanteau1953
uncut1953
anthology1955
three-D1955
Hammer1958
noir1958
co-production1959
kitchen sink1959
kidult1960
docudrama1961
cinéma vérité1963
maudit1963
filmi1965
indie1968
triple-X1969
XXX1969
drama-documentary1970
cheapie1973
gross-out1973
high concept1973
chopsocky1974
hard R1974
buddy movie1975
sci-fi1977
mondo1979
hack-and-slash1981
microbudget1981
hack-and-slay1982
slice-and-dice1982
fly on the wall1983
psychotronic1983
noirish1985
Mad Max1986
stoner1987
bonkbusting1993
straight to DVD1997
1955 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 188 A specially-compiled anthology film entitled The Stars Who Made the Silent Cinema.
1964 Observer 20 Sept. 27/7 Love at Twenty..is an international anthology burdened with duds, like all anthology films ever yet made.
1979 Guardian 22 Feb. 13/1 The Kentucky Fried Movie, an anthology comedy we are shortly to see here.
1983 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 12 Sept. (Metro ed.) 1/1 The latest anthology horror film ‘Nightmares’ won't keep anyone up nights.
2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 28 Aug. c5/5 The 1967 anthology movie ‘Far From Vietnam’ was in its day intended as a cinematic intervention, a cataract of antiwar activism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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