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CENTO

Volume 3 · 51 words · 1778 Edition

in poetry, a work wholly composed of verses or passages promiscuously taken from other authors, only disposed in a new form and order.—Probable Falconia has written the life of Jesus Christ in centos taken from Virgil. Alexander Ross has done the like in his Claristrados, and Stephen de Pleure the same.