Word Meanings - COLLECTANEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.

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• AUTHORSHIP
  1. The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author. 2. Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.
• SELECTIVE
  Selecting; tending to select. This selective providence of the Almighty. Bp. Hall.
• INSTRUCTION
  1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: Precept; information; teachings. Direction; order; command.
• SELECTEDLY
  With care and selection.
• SELECTMAN
  One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town. The system of delegated
• VARIOUS
  1. Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors. So many and so various laws are given. Milton. A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild. Byron. 2. Changeable; uncertain; inconstant;
• VARIOUSLY
  In various or different ways.
• SELECTION
  The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. 2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. See under Natural.
• SELECT
  Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice. A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater
• SELECTOR
  One who selects.
• ANTHOLOGY
  A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services. (more info) 1. A discourses on flowers. 2. A collection of flowers; a garland. 3. A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors;
• MISCELLANY
  A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects. 'T is but a bundle or miscellany of sin; sins original, and sins actual. Hewyt. Miscellany madam, a woman who dealt in various fineries;
• SELECTNESS
  The quality or state of being select.
• INSTRUCTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or promoting, instruction; educational.
• OVARIOUS
  Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food. Thomson.
• MISINSTRUCTION
  Wrong or improper instruction.
• PRESELECT
  To select beforehand.