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nouncentiloquy (plural centiloquies)
plural centiloquies
- datedA work divided into a hundred parts.
Ptolemæus in his Centiloquy, Hermes, or whosoever else the author of that Tract, attributes all these symptoms, which are in melancholy men, to celestial influences
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLCSynonyms: centiloquium
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nounA work divided into a hundred parts.
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- Latincentiloquium
- Englishcentiloquy
Learned borrowing from Latin centiloquium. By surface analysis, centi- + -loquy.
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