book Latinn.

1773 D. Barrington in Ælfred the Great tr. Orosius Anglo-Saxon Version Pref. p. xiii It is likewise positively asserted in the Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Boethius, that Ælfred translated it from Book Latin.

1832 F. Palgrave Rise & Progress Eng. Commonw. ii. p. ccccxxxiv The strangely corrupted language of this document holds a medium between ‘Book Latin’ and the Lingua Romana.

1898 C. F. Johnson Elements Lit. Crit. vi. 206 Milton's..controversy against Salmasius would have been marked by the same vigorous speech-forms had it been written in a living tongue instead of ponderous book-Latin.

1904 M. V. Young Ital. Gram. 11 Words which have always existed as part of the spoken language are developed more..than those taken from book Latin at a comparatively late date.

1953 K. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Brit. i. iii. 80 These are..not ‘learned’ loans from book Latin and written sources, but popular borrowings from the living Latin language.

2012 P. Elbow Vernacular Eloquence iv. xviii. 370 With the eighteenth century, those who cared about language wanted to make English not just regular but noble and good—and that meant that it should be like book Latin.