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text-book|ˈtɛkstbʊk|
[f. text n.1]
†1. (See quot.) Obs.
1730Bailey (folio), Text-Book (in Universities) is a Classick Author written very wide by the Students, to give Room for an Interpretation dictated by the Master, &c. to be inserted in the Interlines.
2. A book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject; now usually one written specially for this purpose; a manual of instruction in any science or branch of study, esp. a work recognized as an authority (cf. text-writer 2).
1779Mirror No. 38 The letters of the immortal Earl of Chesterfield, which I intend to use as my text-book on this occasion. 1795Seward Anecd. I. 203 Lord Bacon's Essays..have been the text-book of myriads of Essay-Writers. 1837Sir F. Palgrave Merch. & Friar Ded. (1844) 9 Andrew Horne, the author of our ancient legal text-book, the Mirror of Justices. a1855Mansfield Salts Pref. (1865) 32 The current vocabulary of the chemical text-books. 1894H. Drummond Ascent of Man 10 In almost every department [of science] the text-books of ten years ago are obsolete to-day.
3. A book containing a selection of Scripture texts, arranged for daily use or easy reference.
1861(title) The Scripture Text Book and Treasury. 1877Bagster's Catal. 50 The Autograph Text Book; Containing a Text of Scripture, and a Verse of Poetry..under every Day in the year.
4. A book containing the libretto of a musical play or opera.
1891in Cent. Dict.
5. attrib. passing into adj. Derived from, dependent upon, or typical of a text-book (sense 2); orig. and still occas. in a derogatory sense, implying mechanical adherence to a stereotype; now freq. used in an approbatory sense of an exemplary or classic instance of something. Cf. copy-book 2 b.
1916[see Middle Western adj. s.v. middle a. 6]. 1927M. Sadleir Trollope iv. 183 The presentation of Greshamsbury House..is perfunctory... Trollope..was content to parrot text-book phrases of appreciation. 1939G. Household Rogue Male 230 To deny..I was uncomfortable, but to produce hypothetical justification for getting more comfort. It was a text-book illustration good enough to take in the foreigner. 1949‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-Four iii. 260 It was a perfect conversion, a textbook case. 1954W. Faulkner Fable 33 An authority..among textbook soldiers on how to keep troops fit. 1957[see real a.2 2 a]. 1963Times 4 May 3/6 Smith tertius (Edwin, of Derbyshire) hit a swinging six into the Mound stand and followed this with two text-book fours. 1970Times 13 Feb. 25/7 The..strike..was a textbook example of response to loss of ‘our management’. 1979N. Hynd False Flags xix. 173 He followed an evasive path, a textbook lesson in how to move without leaving a trace.
Hence ˈtext-bookish a.
1914H. G. Wells Englishman looks at World 84 An educational system..has to be grown; and in the beginning it is bound to be thin, ragged, forced, crammy, text⁓bookish, superficial. 1951Sport 27 Apr.–3 May 3/1 Newcastle can be the more brilliant, the more dazzling, the more text-bookish on their day. 1974Publishers Weekly 4 Feb. 68/2 A textbookish survey of Arab history, religion and culture since the days of Mohammed. |