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centiloquy

centiloquy noun: a work divided into a hundred parts.

Noun

centiloquy (plural centiloquies)

  1. (dated) A 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 influences1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    centiloquium

Synonyms of centiloquy

Forms of centiloquy

pluralcentiloquies

Origin of centiloquy

Learned borrowing from Latin centiloquium. By surface analysis, centi- + -loquy.

Questions about centiloquy

What does centiloquy mean?
Centiloquy means a work divided into a hundred parts.
What part of speech is centiloquy?
Centiloquy is a noun.
What is the plural of centiloquy?
The plural of centiloquy is centiloquies.

Words near centiloquy in the dictionary

  1. centillionth
  2. centillionths
  3. centiloid
  4. centiloquies
  5. centiloquium
  6. centiloquy
  7. centim
  8. Centimanes
  9. centime
  10. centimes
  11. centimeter

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