textuary

American

[teks-choo-er-ee] / ˈtɛks tʃuˌɛr i /

adjective

of or relating to a text; textual.

noun

a textualist.

textuary British

/ ˈtɛkstjʊərɪ /

adjective

of, relating to, or contained in a text

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noun

a textual critic

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

textuaries

plural

Etymology

Origin of textuary

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

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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 Alexander Whyte

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 Sir Thomas Browne

We shall ever be laying our foundations; we shall turn theology into evidences, and divines into textuaries.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman

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