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textuary

American  
[teks-choo-er-ee] / ˈtɛks tʃuˌɛr i /

adjective

  1. of or relating to a text; textual.

noun

plural

textuaries

  1. a textualist.

textuary British  
/ ˈtɛkstjʊərɪ /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or contained in a text

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noun

  1. a textual critic

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Etymology

Origin of textuary

1600–10; < Medieval Latin textu ( s ) ( see text) + -ary

Example Sentences

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Let not the twelve but p. 63the two tables be thy law: let Pythagoras be thy remembrancer, not thy textuary and final instructor: and learn the vanity of the world, rather from Solomon than Phocylydes. 

From Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation by Whyte, Alexander

Some who have had the honour to be textuary in divinity are of opinion it shall be the same specifical fire with ours.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir

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