Cento

sen′to, n. a name applied to literary trivialities in the form of poems manufactured by putting together distinct verses or pa ages of one author, or of several authors, so as to make a new meaning: a composition formed by joining scraps from other authors: expre ing contempt, a mere string of commonplace phrases and quotations:— pl. usually Cen′tos .— ns. Cen′toist ; Cen′tonism , Cen′toism . [L. cento , Gr. kentrōn , patchwork.]