The practice or technique of composing literary works by assembling passages, verses, or ideas from other sources.
From Latin 'cento' + '-ism' (a practice or doctrine). This term emerged as scholars formalized the study of how ancient and medieval writers used centonization as a respected literary technique.
Centonism was so respected that wealthy Romans would hire poets to create centos using only lines from Virgil—imagine if today people paid someone to make something entirely from song lyrics!
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