Obs. [a. Fr. florilège, or ad. mod.L. flōrilegium: see next.] = next.

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  a.  1665.  Rea (title), Flora … or a Complete Florilege, furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist.

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  b.  1651.  Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 290. The errors and ignorances which have been here discovered by familiar and pregnant demonstrations, have not bin sucked and elaborated (like the Bee) so much out of, either the poison of somes dotages and uncertain principles, or others Florilege and Analect.

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1727–41.  in Chambers, Cycl.

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