digitaryadj.
/ˈdɪdʒɪt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈdɪdʒəˌtɛri/ Of, relating to, or using the fingers.In quot. 1767 used in a parody of Johnsonian style.
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fingerlyOE
fingereda1529
digital1656
digitary1767
fingerish1888
minimal1893
1767 A. Campbell Lexiphanes 37 A pruriginous..eruption of pustules in the digitary interstices.
1798 R. S. New Monk I. ii. 85 He pronounced the humerus to be shook considerably, and the radius to be considerably impaired by the fall; as for the digitary extremities manual, I can firmly advance that the palmaric tendons were stretched beyond their usual length.
1835 London Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 6 718/1 Repetition of organs..—digitary (six fingers).
1927 F. L. Lucas in J. Webster Compl. Wks. I. 209 ‘Carving’ was the term for a curious Elizabethan manner of making advances by signalling with the fingers—a sort of digitary ogle.
2001 J. E. Rodgers Sex iii. 108 The digits, it seems, like San Marco's spandrels, may just be along for the reproductive ride, because the HOX genes happen to link both genital and digitary development.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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