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marginalia

[mahr-juh-ney-lee-uh, -neyl-yuh]
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plural noun

marginal notes.

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comment, inscription, remark, journal, memorandum, summary, diary, letter, commentary, message, missive, record, synopsis, draft, report, annotation, scratch, dispatch, scrawl, calendar

Origin of marginalia

1825–35; < New Latin, noun use of neuter plural of Medieval Latin marginālis marginal
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Historical Examples of marginalia

  • In an early number we propose to publish a selection from the letters of Lamb, and the "Marginalia" of Coleridge.

  • Poe said in one of his Marginalia that the man who dared to write the story of his heart would fire the paper upon which he wrote.

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  • Essays and Marginalia, and Poems, with a memoir by his brother Derwent, appeared in 1851.

  • For the great owners of the past, certainly, we regret that they were so sparing in marginalia.

  • Some of these marginalia were copied by subsequent scribes into the text, where, in our version, they still remain.

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British Dictionary definitions for marginalia

marginalia

pl n

notes in the margin of a book, manuscript, or letter

Word Origin for marginalia

C19: New Latin, noun (neuter plural) from marginālis marginal
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Word Origin and History for marginalia
n.

1832, from Latin marginalia, neuter plural of adjective marginalis "marginal," from marginis (see margin).

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