Anthologised

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have gathered and arranged multiple literary or artistic pieces into one published work
2. The action of compiling distinct works into a unified collection for presentation or study
3. The process of selecting various creative pieces and grouping them into a single published volume

Etymology: "Anthologised" is the British spelling of "anthologized," the past tense and past participle of "anthologise," which means to gather literary or artistic pieces into a single published collection. The verb is built from "anthology," which comes from Greek "anthologia," literally "flower-gathering," formed from "anthos" (flower) and "legein" (to gather or collect). The image is of picking blooms from many fields and bundling them together, and the Greek term was first applied to collections of short poems rather than to flowers in any literal sense. The verb carries that floral picture into modern publishing. Someone who has anthologised a set of poems or stories has done the bundling: choosing pieces from many sources and binding them into one volume. The "-ise" ending is the standard British verb suffix, derived from Greek "-izein," which turns a noun into a verb meaning "to make or treat in a certain way."

Synonyms: compiled, edited