单词 | scriptorial |
释义 | scriptorialadj. 1. Of or relating to writing; of the nature of writing; used for writing.In quot. 1781: (of a typeface) having the appearance of cursive handwriting; cf. script n.1 6. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [adjective] graphical1643 pennish1646 scriptorian1656 scriptorya1682 graphic1778 scriptorial1781 scriptural1827 drawn-out1847 1781 Catal. Sundry Printing Materials 3 Pica Scriptorial, new and perfect. 1831 T. Carlyle Let. 7 July in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1976) V. 297 I must not take in all your encomiums about my scriptorial genius. 1859 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 31 Graphic or scriptorial materials. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 July 468/4 In his wise words on scriptorial style and character, Mr. Graily Hewitt has amplified the debt which those who love good lettering already owe him. 1980 G. M. Wickens Arabic Gram. xxi. 80 The problem has both scriptorial and phonetic factors. 2011 Slate Mag. (Nexis) 18 Mar. I can't decide whether Radioactive is a work of art in the form of a book, or a book in the form of a work of art. It has elements of both, pictorial and scriptorial. 2. Of or relating to (the work of) a scribe or copyist; scribal. Also: of or relating to a scriptorium. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writer > [adjective] > like or relating to professional writer or copyist scriptorial1797 clerical1798 clerkish1824 clerkly1839 scribal1855 1797 R. Heron New Gen. Hist. Scotl. III. iv. i. 198 Of scriptorial diligence, multiplying the copies of books, which had been preserved from antiquity, or recently composed. 1819 J. Carey Lat. Prosody made Easy (ed. 3) 222 Were it not very probable..that it is merely a scriptorial error for Naupliadæ. 1883 W. H. Adams Mountains & Mountain-climbing vii. 182 Some of the illuminated manuscripts are masterpieces of scriptorial art. 1954 PMLA 69 975 One may find a good many manuscripts whose scriptorial origin can be postulated if not proved. 1970 B. M. H. Strang Hist. Eng. iii. 162 Westminster, already a great ecclesiastical centre with important scriptorial resources. 2014 S. Neven in S. Dupré Laboratories of Art 29 The art of writing and illuminating involved in scriptorial activity. Derivatives scripˈtorially adv. in writing; by means of writing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [adverb] graphically1609 scriptorially1823 1823 La Belle Assemblée Dec. 245/1 In all ages of the world, orally and scriptorially, the living have..taken suitable measures for the appropriation of their valuables after death. 1974 V. Nabokov Look at Harlequins (1975) i. iv. 19 This is corroborated scriptorially. 1999 E. B. Vitz Orality & Performance in Early French Romance i. iv. 102 Many works..were conceived more orally than scriptorially: they began with a kind of oral performance of the material. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1781 |
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