anthologicaladj.

1607 R. Stafford (title) A Geographicall and anthologicall description of all the Empires and Kingdomes, both of Continent and Ilands in this terrestriall Globe. Relating their scituations, manners, Customes, Prouinces, and Gouernements.

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. To Rdr. p. xxxviii Anthological Students and the Bookish Ladies.

1796 Monthly Rev. 20 App. 512 What yet exist of anthological manuscripts in Rome.

1846 Amer. Rev. Oct. 351 No one who has read Blackwood's Anthological articles can help calling him a great translator.

1881 Academy 20 Aug. 131/1 The usual task of an anthological biographer.

1941 C. Fadiman Reading I've Liked 709 It is so remarkable a work of literary artfulness that I predict for it a long anthological life.

2002 Guardian 7 Dec. (Review section) 14/5 The virtues of By the Sword are, one might say, more anthological than analytical.

1873 B. Seemann Flora Vitiensis 234 This genus..was referred by its author to Ulmaceæ, in accordance with its then known anthological characters.

1906 E. L. Greene Leaflets Bot. Observ. & Crit. I. 61 The anthological phases of another..genus, Phyteuma, illustrate remarkably well the possibilities of the descent of the chicory ligule along such a line.