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. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
When Josh asked me to make a Sarah Palin florilegium, I didn't blink. From Wordnik.com. [TPM: News Pages] Reference
SIGLO: FREEDOM - a florilegium of old and new writers and illustrators, edited by Vin and myself. From Wordnik.com. [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference
Like the florilegium, the practice of aedificatio built personal character and established guiding principles for everyday life. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
14 To prepare their sons for this challenge, Leonardo and Federico each bequeathed a florilegium. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
Florilegia (Lat., florilegium, an anthology) are systematic collections of excerpts (more or less copious) from the works of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
8Pedagogically, a florilegium enabled students to envision memory as a garden, carefully plotted for seeds and cuttings collected from other exemplary lives and works. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
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?. From Wordnik.com. [V. Interlude: On Jargon] Reference
A florilegium somewhat similar to the "Doctrina" is mentioned by Photius in his Bibliotheca (Migne. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
46Although the steady hum of rumination was gradually hushed by the printing press, Francis Bacon incorporated the trope as a fundamental image of the scientific method when he likened the scholar-scientist to a bee in the first chapter of the Novum organum (1626) .117 It is not far-fetched, then, to draw a comparison among the mnemonic imagery of classical forulae, the florilegium (literally the "reading of flowers"), and the floral ornament found in the margins of illuminated manuscripts and architectural settings of study. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
Influx inflow anthology florilegium. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2] Reference
All others of whatever occupation shall, (dressed) in blue, violet and musterdevillers, shall meet our sovereign lord on foot at St. James 'church. http: / / trytel. com / ~tristan / towns / florilegium / community / cmevnt11. html arby said. From Wordnik.com. [Errata: The Wordie Blog] Reference
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