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textuary

[ teks-choo-er-ee ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to a text; textual.


noun

plural textuaries.
  1. a textualist.

textuary

/ ˈɛʊəɪ /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or contained in a text
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a textual critic
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of textuary1

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

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For as he was faithful in declaring the whole counsel of God to his people, in warning them against the evils of the time, so he was likewise a great textuary, close in handling any truth he discoursed upon, and in the application most home, warm and searching, shewing himself a most skilful casuist.

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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. 

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The result of this unusual privilege was that the great Textuary has issued by far the most accurate and satisfactory edition which we possess at present.

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Theodotian of old, and Tremillius of late, have retained the Textuary word; and so have the Italian, Low Dutch, and English Translators, that is, the Men of Arvad were upon thy Walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy Towers.

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

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