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English
Etymology
From Latin centum (“hundred”) + -loquy.
Noun
centiloquy (plural centiloquies)
- (dated) A work divided into a hundred parts.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC: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
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