collagic

English

Etymology

Apparently a 20th-century neologism, regular derivation from collage +‎ -ic. Earliest confirmed occurrence found in 1971: see citations.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kəˈlæd͡ʒɪk/

Adjective

collagic (comparative more collagic, superlative most collagic)

  1. (rare) Like a collage, made from the assemblage of diverse things.
    • 1971, Filmmakers Newsletter (Suncraft International), volume 5, number 1–6, page 24:
      Each section of Markopoulos' GALAXIE is an unqualified gem, but put them all together and the film becomes a collagic bore […] .
    • 1977, Barry Walter Moore, Garth S. Jowett, Aesthetic Aespects of Recent Experimental Film‎, published 1980, →ISBN, page 94:
      His film Invocation of my Demon Brother […] has an open, collagic form which has as its center a magical ritual […] interrupted by discontinuous images which suggest the forces of darkness.
    • 1979, James Foley, Theoretical Morphology of the French Verb‎, →ISBN, page 18:
      Vulgar Latin : a collagic concept designed to cover up the failure of Romance philologists to comprehend the development of the Romance languages.
    • 1988, Lyell Asher, Robert Merrill, Ethics/aesthetics: Post-modern Positions‎, →ISBN, page 85:
      A second postmodernist impulse is found in the collagic, which critics and writers […] have seen as a means not of imitating reality, but of intervening in it.
    • 1998, Nina Rapi, Maya Chowdhry, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance‎, →ISBN, page 106:
      [Two CD-ROMs] are collagic and marked by the processes of crafting them from video, scans, and manipulated imagery.
    • 2005, Guiyou Huang, Asian American Literary Studies‎, →ISBN, page 43:
      […] postmodern collagic texts like Kingston's The Woman Warrior […]
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