realian.

1833 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. July 521 Realschulen..are less occupied with the study of languages (Verbalia) than with the knowledge of things (Realia).

1865 C. T. Brooks tr. J. P. F. Richter Hesperus II. xxvi. 38 There are men—he was one—who will hunt up intelligence without the least interest in its contents, and personalia without realia [Ger. Realien].

1888 Classical Rev. 2 317/2 A Porsonian is apt to interest himself in verbal scholarship to the neglect of realia.

1910 H. Jones Working Faith 77 The reader will find in Lotze's account of space, and of distance an instructive instance of the attempt to reduce all ‘realia’ into feeling points.

1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xiv. 362 The realia, we should always remember, cannot be learned in books but only in the practice of a scientific profession.

1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xix. 480 There is a real need of new translations..fully explained by a scholar..acquainted not only with philologic details but with all the realia expressed or implied.

1962 Y. Malkiel in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 5 Attention is focused on..strictly lexical data (at the expense of realia, proper names, and the like).

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Apr. 464/1 Takes Christian scholars to task for being too theological about Judaism, for ignoring its realia.

2002 N. Basbanes Among Gently Mad ix. 196 Once he realized that so much material, including a good deal of what is called realia , was available..Gulotta became obsessed with the quest.

1894 K. Breul in Die Neueren Sprachen 2 425 I shall only speak of such qualifications as can be won by scientific and practical training with regard to (1) language, (2) literature, and (3) facts and studies illustrating these, which for the sake of brevity, I shall in this lecture call ‘realia’.

1905 School Rev. 13 80 The study of realia may be limited to what is suggested by the literary text.]

1928 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 12 460 An adequate supply of realia in the way of maps, pictures, magazines, phonograph records is no less essential than is proper laboratory equipment for the chemist.

1950 J. S. Kinder Audio-visual Materials & Teaching Techniques xiii. 333 Realia include such items as objects, specimens, samples, relics, artifacts, souvenirs, and even models and dioramas.

1970 J. Riddle et al. Non-bk. Materials (prelim. ed.) 44 Realia are entered under title. The title may be taken from the box or accompanying data. Where no title can be found, the catalogues will supply one, e.g. [Robin's egg] (Realia).

1992 Internat. Rev. Appl. Ling. in Lang. Teaching May 101 The repeated pattern-like activities with realia such as videos and books bring him some understanding.