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English
Etymology
Apparently a 20th-century neologism, regular derivation from collage + -ic. Earliest confirmed occurrence found in 1971: see citations.
Pronunciation
Adjective
collagic (comparative more collagic, superlative most collagic)
- (rare) Like a collage, made from the assemblage of diverse things.
- 1971, Filmmakers Newsletter (Suncraft International), volume 5, number 1–6, page 24:
- Each section of Markopoulos' GALAXIE is an unqualified gem, but put them all together and the film becomes a collagic bore .
1977, Barry Walter Moore, Garth S. Jowett, Aesthetic Aespects of Recent Experimental Film, published 1980, →ISBN, page 94:His film Invocation of my Demon Brother […] has an open, collagic form which has as its center a magical ritual […] interrupted by discontinuous images which suggest the forces of darkness.
1979, James Foley, Theoretical Morphology of the French Verb, →ISBN, page 18:Vulgar Latin : a collagic concept designed to cover up the failure of Romance philologists to comprehend the development of the Romance languages.
1988, Lyell Asher, Robert Merrill, Ethics/aesthetics: Post-modern Positions, →ISBN, page 85:A second postmodernist impulse is found in the collagic, which critics and writers […] have seen as a means not of imitating reality, but of intervening in it.
1998, Nina Rapi, Maya Chowdhry, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance, →ISBN, page 106:[Two CD-ROMs] are collagic and marked by the processes of crafting them from video, scans, and manipulated imagery.
2005, Guiyou Huang, Asian American Literary Studies, →ISBN, page 43:[…] postmodern collagic texts like Kingston's The Woman Warrior […]