Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A collection of excerpts from written texts, especially works of literature.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as florilege, 2.
Wiktionary
- n. A collection of flowers
- n. An anthology
WordNet 3.0
- n. an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
Etymologies
- Latin, from flos ("flower") + form of legō ("I gather"), calque of Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthologia, "flower-gathering") (English anthology), so called because flowers were used as symbols of the finer sensibility of literature. (Wiktionary)
- New Latin flōrilegium, flower-gathering (translation of Greek anthologion, flower-gathering, anthology), from Latin flōrilegus, gathering flowers : flōs, flōr-, flower. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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 ....”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“Like the florilegium, the practice of aedificatio built personal character and established guiding principles for everyday life.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“SIGLO: FREEDOM - a florilegium of old and new writers and illustrators, edited by Vin and myself”
“When Josh asked me to make a Sarah Palin florilegium, I didn't blink.”
“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?”
“Florilegia (Lat., florilegium, an anthology) are systematic collections of excerpts (more or less copious) from the works of the”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“14 To prepare their sons for this challenge, Leonardo and Federico each bequeathed a florilegium.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“8Pedagogically, a florilegium enabled students to envision memory as a garden, carefully plotted for seeds and cuttings collected from other exemplary lives and works.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“That the Damascene was really the compiler of the "Sacra Parallela", and that he used as his principal source the "Capita theologica", a florilegium of Maximus Confessor, has been maintained recently with much learning and skill (against”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘florilegium’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fabaceous, fabiform, fabulist, faburden, face-cord, facetiae, facia, facinorous, factious, factitious, factitive, factive and 418 more...
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250 Further Spelling Words
Another compilation of spelling words suitable for intermediate to advanced spellers.
venturi, aesir, affenpinscher, rottweiler, amanuensis, balletomane, sangfroid, yukata, capriccio, cuisse, heriot, psaltery and 236 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Fun to Say
Non-English is okay, but please don't add misspellings.
writhe, quibble, smock, festival, carnival, unicycle, panorama, mammogram, explicit, prehensile, pseudonym, antonym and 18 more...
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Metawords
Talking about talking, writing about writing, etc.
epizeuxis, tautological, aptote, bibliophagist, parataxis, scriptorium, aposiopesis, variorum, chantefable, boustrophedon, psellism, adoxography and 51 more...
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Collections
Have I made this list before? Has someone else collected these words together? I can't remember, so I'm just going to start storing some things here.
collection, omnium-gatherum, sylloge, antiphonary, anthology, bestiary, cartulary, dossier, sampler, assortment, variety, hodgepodge and 65 more...
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work these into conversation
Challenge!
legerdemain, polysemic, rupestrian, callipygian, oscitancy, numen, lucubration, asperity, amalgam, apposite, wastrel, eleemosynary and 208 more...
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Most Obscure Words
acatalectic, acosmism, acuate, acuminate, adscititious, adytum, akratisma, alieniloquy, allelomorph, allochiria, allodium, alnage and 620 more...
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i heart words
autarkic, cline, aver, limn, gossamer, ochre, fulminate, twee, augur, mollify, maw, ecumenical and 113 more...
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A Second Helping of Random Palavery
A continuation of my first list, "A Serving of Random Palavery". Like the first, this list contains words that catch my attention, ring happily in my ears, are fun to speak, or are interesting to ...
bouffoir, mossberry, webisode, barquette, brochidodromous, festooned brochid..., eucamptodromy, eucamptodromous, loment, keenings, moss-trooper, mosstrooping and 138 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
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words of collect
A Heidegger Collection - a log of logues
leech, lectern, lection, lecture, legend, legible, legion, lesson, coil, collect, diligent, elect and 123 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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tez's Words
tain, curlicue, eidolon, exoteric, puissant, ragamuffin, insouciant, yarrow, taciturn, mundane, vomitorium, tenebre and 140 more...
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Pretty words
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for florilegium.
fbharjo an earthburst (as opposed to a thunderburst) Nov 11, 2011
hernesheir (n): a collection of botanical sketches, paintings, and/or reproductions depicting collected plants in their original form and colors. Jan 11, 2009
hernesheir cf: Banks' Florilegium for an historic example brought forth in modern times. Jan 11, 2009
vanishedone A critic on The Book of Disquiet: 'What is this Livro do Desassossego ? Neither 'commonplace book', nor 'sketchbook', nor 'florilegium' will do. Imagine a fusion of Coleridge's notebooks and marginalia, of Valery's philosophic diary and of Robert Musil's voluminous journal... What we have is a haunting mosaic of dreams, psychological notations, autobiographical vignettes, shards of literary theory and criticism and maxims.' Jun 18, 2008