Collectanea

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Collectanea \Col`lec*ta"ne*a\, n. pl. [Neut. pl. from L.
     collectaneus collected, fr. colligere. See {Collect}, v. t.]
     Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes
     of instruction; miscellany; anthology.
     [1913 Webster]



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "collectanea":
     Festschrift, album, ana, analects, anthology, aquarium, assortment,
     beauties, body, canon, chrestomathy, clippings, collected works,
     collection, compilation, complete works, conglomerate,
     conglomeration, corpus, cuttings, data, delectus, excerpta,
     excerpts, extracts, florilegium, flowers, fragments, fund, garden,
     garland, gleanings, hodgepodge, holdings, library, medley,
     menagerie, miscellanea, miscellany, mixture, museum, oddments,
     odds and ends, omnibus, omnium-gatherum, photograph album,
     quotation book, raw data, scrapbook, sundries, symposium, treasure,
     variety, zoo