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CENTO

Volume 4 · 50 words · 1797 Edition

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