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Definition of Centones
1. cento [n] - See also: cento
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centones
Literary usage of Centones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cyclopedia of Missions: Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary by Harvey Newcomb (1855)
"Other; have followed, anda bishop has lately been appointed. the 13th and Uth
centones, by St. Hyacinth, of Poland, ..."
2. Literary Frivolities, Fancies, Follies and Frolics by William T. Dobson (1880)
"centones OR MOSAICS. CENTO is properly a piece of patchwork ... Of the earliest
of these were the " Homero-centones," a patchwork of lines from Homer ..."
3. A General Bibliographical Dictionary by Friedrich Adolf Ebert, Arthur Browne (1837)
"Certamen et centones. ... centones ex Virgilio. ... centones in V. ac NT scripti.
Denuo edid. LH Teucher. Lps., Schwickert, 1793. 8". Also on writing paper. ..."
4. A General Bibliographical Dictionary by Friedrich Adolf Ebert, Arthur Browne (1837)
"Certamen et centones. ... quae et centones, gr. lat. ... centones in V. ac NT
scripti. Denuo edid. LH Teucher. Lps., Schwickert, 1793. 8°. ..."
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