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bookish, a.|ˈbʊkɪʃ|
[f. book n. + -ish.]
1. Of or belonging to a book or books; literary.
1567Drant Hor. Epist. xiii. E iij, Thou must retaine thy bookish charge. 1594Ord. of Prayer in Liturg. Serv. Q. Eliz. (1847) 657 Did not Saunders second his bookish treasons..by commotion in Ireland? 1816Q. Rev. XVI. 1 A phenomenon, in these days of bookish luxury. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 10 Natural Language, neither bookish nor vulgar. 1878S. Cox Salv. Mundi (ed. 3) Pref. 8 To recast these Lectures into a more bookish form.
2. Addicted to the reading of books; studious.
1570Levins Manip. 144 Bookish, studiosus. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. iii. 73 Though I am not bookish, yet I can reade Waiting-Gentlewoman in the scape. 1665D. Lloyd State Worthies (1670) 672 [Raleigh] An accomplished Gallant, and yet a bookish man. 1775T. Sheridan Art Reading 330 Bookish men are remarkable for taciturnity. 1874Maurice Friendship Bks. i. 12 In this bookish time of James I.
b. Disparagingly: Acquainted with books only.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, i. i. 259 Whose bookish Rule, hath pull'd faire England downe. 1680Crowne Misery Civ. War ii. 16 Under the reign of this tame bookish Henry. 1712Addison Spect. No. 482 ⁋2 A bookish man, who has no knowledge of the world. 1864Burton Scot Abr. II. i. 68 A monkish, bookish person, who meddles with nothing but literature.
3. quasi-adv. = next.
1591Florio 2nd Frutes A iv. b, To..speake bookish. |