Citations:eclection

English citations of eclection

• 1854, Present times and future prospects, in lectures delivered during Lent, 1854, page 232:

  Having made an eclection of Gog, we turn to the Apocalypse, where we find his name again; and because there are some points of resemblance, we conclude that they must belong to the same events.

• 1981, aaq, the Architectural Association Quarterly, volume 13:

  Elevations throughout are in an eclection of Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman.

• 2001, Roger D. Skillings, How many die:

  "An eclection," said sepulchral-sounding Dooley Jones, whose quips his friends strove to requite with rueful sniggers. [...] "It's true," Estes said. "No two things go together."