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textual, a. (n.)|ˈtɛkstjuːəl|
Also 4–5 -uel.
[In form textuel, app. a. AF. (F. textuel only 15th c. in Godef.), ad. L. type *textuāl-is, f. textu-s: see text n.1 and -al1. So Sp., Pg. textual, It. -ale. The later Eng. spelling is conformed to the L. type (as in other adjs. orig. in -el).]
†1. Of a person: Well acquainted with ‘texts’ or authors; well-read; literally exact in giving the text. [So F. textuel ‘qui connait les textes’, 1571 in Godef. Compl., also in Cotgr.] Obs.
c1386Chaucer Manciple's T. 131 (Ellesm.) But for I am a man not textueel I wol noght telle of textes neuer a deel. Ibid. 212 But as I seyde I am noght textueel. ― Pars. Prol. 57 This meditacion I putte it ay vnder correccion Of Clerkes for I am nat textueel [so Harl. & Hengwrt; 4 MSS. text wel. Textuel was prob. Chaucer's word, which being app. unknown to some scribes was altered to text wel and texted wel: cf. texted 1]. 1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Textuall, cunning in the text.
2. Of, pertaining to, or contained in the (or a) text, esp. of the Scriptures.
c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. iii. Cock & Fox xxviii. (Charteris) Ȝit may ȝe find ane sentence richt agreabill, Vnder thir fenȝeit termis textuall. 1570Levins Manip. 15/26 Textuall, textualis. a1638Mede Wks. (1672) 347 So the Cethib or Textual reading hath it. 1731Waterland Script. Vind. ii. 125 So stands the case, upon the foot of the Textual Reading. 1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. vii. 309 The admitted principles of textual criticism. 1872W. Minto Eng. Prose Lit. ii. vi. 468 His sagacity in textual emendations.
b. Of or belonging to the text-books.
1863Emerson Misc. Papers, Thoreau Wks. (Bohn) III. 324 Though very studious of natural facts, he was incurious of technical and textual science.
†3. Recognizing only the text of Scripture as authoritative. Also as n. one that does this. Obs.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage ii. viii. 123 They are called Karraim, because they would seeme Textuall, and Scripture-men, disallowing Traditions [ed. 1614, p. 143 Karaim, that is, Bible-men, or Textualls, and in the Roman tongue they call them Saduces].
4. Based on, following, or conforming to the text, esp. of the Scriptures.
1614Bp. Hall Recoll. Treat. Ded. A ij b, Speculation interchanged with experience, positiue theologie with polemicall, textuall with discursorie. 1670Walton Life Donne 34 Incessant study of textual divinity. 1863Robinson in Macm. Mag. Mar. 419 The textual system..has tended to establish a persuasion that Christian doctrines can be..proved by detached quotations. 1908Sat. Rev. 11 July 39/2 Possibly we have not got the quotation exactly textual. |