"centonical" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1966, Roman Jakobson, Slavic Epic Studies, page 551",
          "text": "In technical terms, the Zadonščina could be defined as a centonical palinode, i.e. as a composition built up primarily on literal or paraphrased quotations and intended to counterbalance or refute the quoted work.",
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          "ref": "1978, Robert Marcellus Browning, German poetry in the Age of the Enlightenment: from Brockes to Klopstock",
          "text": "The end of the poem offers a good example of his centonical procedure.",
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          "ref": "2012, Kip Lornell, Exploring American Folk Music, page 181",
          "text": "Ballads in the black tradition are also often centonical—they borrow thematic elements from a variety of sources to build something new.",
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        "Of or pertaining to a cento (work quoting from other authors)."
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