— anthological /an'theuh loj"i keuhl/ , adj. — anthologically , adv. — anthologist , n.
/an thol"euh jee/ , n. , pl. anthologies .
1. a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or on the same subject: an anthology of Elizabethan drama; an anthology of modern philosophy.
2. a collection of selected writings by one author.
[ 1630-40; anthologia anthológ ( os ) flower-gathering ( antho- ANTHO- + -logos, adj. deriv. of légein to pick up, collect) + -ia -IA ]