textuaryadj.n.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xvi. 145 Pliny..hath differently translated it,..whereby he extends the exclusion unto twenty dayes, which in the textuary sense is fully accomplished in one. View more context for this quotation

1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow 63 Plucking away.., from the divine organism of the Bible, textuary morsels and fragments for the support of doctrines which they had learned beforehand.

1854 W. Waterworth Eng. & Rome 62 (note) The textuary proofs of St. Peter's supremacy.

1882 Sat. Rev. 54 639/1 It is as genuine a result of textuary accommodation as any against which this writer protests.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 395 Euclide the textuary Geomettrician.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 374 He..hath left sixteen books of Opticks, of great esteem with ages past, and textuary unto our daies. View more context for this quotation

a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 110 Let Pythagoras be thy Remembrancer, not thy textuary and final Instructer.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iii. x. 247 They hate the Persians,..like as the Traditionary Iew doth the Textuarie, and the Papist the Protestant.

1608 Bp. J. King Serm. St. Maries Oxf. 28 Is there almost a worthier and prompter textuary in the world..in that booke of the Law?

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Linc. 167 He was an excellent Textuary and profound Linguist, the reason why he was imployed by King James in translating of the Bible.

1677 T. Middleton Appendix 20 in J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (ed. 4) He was learned in the Hebrew, and was a great Textuary.

a1710 G. Bull Visit. Serm. (1714) 21 If by a Textuary, we mean him who hath not only a Concordance of Scriptures in his Memory, but also a Commentary on them in his Understanding; who thinks it not enough to be ready in alledging the bare Words of Scripture, with the mention of Chapter and Verse where it is written, unless he know the Sense and Meaning of what he recites.

1720 J. Swift Let. to Young Poet (1721) 8 I have made it my Observation, that the greatest Wits have been the best Textuaries: Our modern Poets are..almost as well read in the Scriptures as some of our Divines.

1851 G. S. Faber Many Mansions 223 Mr. Scott,..than whom there probably never was a more accomplished textuary, takes pretty much the same view of the question.

1879 Q. Rev. 148 422 Having the Bible at their fingers' ends... They were not merely accomplished textuaries.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Textuaries, Textuarii, a Name given the Sect of the Caraites, among the Jews... Hittel shone among the Traditionaries; and Schammai among the Textuaries.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Textualist, Textuary... 2. One who adheres to the text.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Textuary, a Law-Book, or other Treatise, that contains only the bare Text, without any Comment or Gloss upon it.

1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) A Textuary,..a Book which contains only the bare Text, without any Gloss or Comment upon it.