auctorial

American  

[awk-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-, ouk-] / ɔkˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr-, ˈaʊk- /

adjective

1. of, by, or pertaining to an author.

   auctorial changes made in the manuscript margin; auctorial rights.

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auctorial British  

/ ɔːkˈtɔːrɪəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to an author

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Etymology

Origin of auctorial

1815–25; < Latin auctor author + -ial

Example Sentences

Auctorial, awk′tōr-i-al, adj. of or pertaining to an author or his trade.

From Project Gutenberg

Lucidity is no part of the auctorial task.

From Time Magazine Archive

To four Americans and four U.S. communities came the second greatest honor the Church of Rome can bestow: New York's plump, tireless, globetrotting, auctorial* Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman learned of his elevation on the eve of going home to his father's for Christmas in Whitman, Mass. Asked if his appointment made this his happiest homecoming, he said: "The happiest was the day I came home ordained after five years away and said Mass for my father and mother."

From Time Magazine Archive

With facsimile copies made available, scholars and the owners of rare books will be spared mutual worry and bother in the scholars' searches for emendations, textual changes, auctorial notations.

From Time Magazine Archive

It followed that—among the futile persons who use serious, long words in talking about mere books,—aggrieved reproof of my auctorial malversations, upon the one ground or the other, became in 1921 biloquial and pandemic.

From Project Gutenberg