Wiktionary
n. (plural of florilegium English)
WordNet
n. an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. [syn: garland, miscellany]
[also: florilegia (pl)]
See florilegium
Usage examples of "florilegia".
Was that how ancient knowledge survived, only in fragments like the florilegia Da had compiled over the years?
The first book, written on parchment, contained a florilegia on the topic of sorcery: quotes and comments copied out of other books by Da over the years.
Although she had not memorized the entire florilegia, scraps of it emerged, quotations like fish swimming to the surface.
It will dilate itself about the brain (where there, is any) in fourteen minutes, and you immediately perceive in your head an infinite number of abstracts, summaries, compendiums, extracts, collections, medulas, excerpta quaedams, florilegias and the like, all disposed into great order, and reducible upon paper.