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auctorial

American

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

adjective

of, by, or pertaining to an author.

auctorial changes made in the manuscript margin; auctorial rights.

auctorial British

/ ɔːkˈtɔːrɪəl /

adjective

of or relating to an author

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Etymology

Origin of auctorial

1815–25; < Latin auctor author + -ial

Example Sentences

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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

Lucidity is no part of the auctorial task.

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 Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch

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