literatim
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of literatim
First recorded in 1635–45; from Medieval Latin, from Latin līterāt(us) + adverb suffix -im; see literate
Example Sentences
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The inscription is, of course, if the painting be Mrs. Prince's work, reproduced literatim from some older copy.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn
I have reported it verbatim et literatim, without changing it in the slightest degree, neither adding nor taking therefrom a single word.
From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by Helleberg, C. G. (Carl Gustaf)
And this cash-value, it is needless to say, is verbatim et literatim what our empiricist account pays in.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William
More rarely, entry is made of some oddity of speech; and he has thus preserved in it, verbatim et literatim, what he declared to have been as startling a message as he ever received.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
Old Robin of Portingale, to retain it literatim: in either case I have reduced to uniformity the orthography of the proper names.
From Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series by Sidgwick, Frank
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