text-mann.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > [noun] > one learned in
Scripturian1599
textuary1608
text-man1619
textualist1629
textuist1631
scripturist1641
scriptorian1787
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > [noun] > strict adherence to > person
scripturer?1550
Scripturary1563
Scripturian1565
ink-divine1604
scripturist1604
textual1613
text-man1619
textualist1629
Scripturarian1652
scripturalist?1702
textuary1728
Bible-bigot1766
Bible-moth1789
bibliolatrist1826
Biblist1836
Biblicist1837
gymnobiblist1844
bibliolater1847
1619 R. Harris Drunkards Cup 26 A very iudicious Diuine, and grounded Text-man.
1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron i. vi. 33 The Scribes clave to the written Word, whence they were termed Text-men, or Masters of the Text.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Cor. i. 20) The Text-men, those that proceed according to the literall interpretation.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iv. ii. iii. 154/2 He was a Notable Text-Man, and one who had more than Forty or Fifty Scriptures distinctly quoted in One Discourse.
2. The author of a textbook. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers of other types of material
metaphrast1610
lasher1611
pastoralist1619
amorist1642
travel writer1711
party writer1715
Poor Richard1757
murdermonger1785
manners-painter1807
institutionalist1817
paroemiographer1823
nautical1831
nonsense-writera1835
recaster1841
serialist1845
snobographer1848
librettist1862
palindromist1872
fragmentist1874
text-man1900
scriptwriter1911
paradoxographer1917
absurdist1929
blogger1999
weblogger1999
1900 H. G. Graham Social Life Scotl. 18th Cent. (1901) xii. iii. 464 Bacon, Locke and Evans, Puffendorf and De Vries were welcome text-men.
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