Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or conforming to a text or texts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or contained in the text: as, textual criticism; textual errors.
- Based on texts.
- Acquainted with texts and capable of quoting them precisely; learned or versed in texts.
- noun One versed in texts; a textualist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text.
- adjective Serving for, or depending on, texts.
- adjective Familiar with texts or authorities so as to cite them accurately.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or pertaining to
text . - adjective Pertaining to
text messages , by analogy withsexual :textual harassment , textual intercourse; comparesexting .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or based on a text
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Examples
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The nav element is meant for blocks of links, not for individual links mentioned in textual content or for links in the footer area of a section or article.
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These two groups have a more shallow history, at least in textual terms, coming into clear view only through the early ethnographic accounts of colonial authorities.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Just as it's not that difficult to situate novae, errata and chimerae in textual specifics ( "The door dilated," "President Himmler sat in the Oval Office," "The crescent sun was high, the moon low,") pataphysical quirks are not so hard to pin down, I think, as it may at first seem.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk Hal Duncan 2008
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The real lair of the potential lurks not so much in textual meaning as in the production of that meaning, always in process.
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Just as it's not that difficult to situate novae, errata and chimerae in textual specifics ( "The door dilated," "President Himmler sat in the Oval Office," "The crescent sun was high, the moon low,") pataphysical quirks are not so hard to pin down, I think, as it may at first seem.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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This combination of interests is intended to foster connections between scholars working in textual analysis and those working in other areas of humanities computing
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[The first chapter will examine the Old English Orosius, and the temporalities which intersect both in textual translation as well as the re-appropriation of generic convention across historical time, positing “the nation” as a network in which texts, peoples and generic forms play a role in the creation of identity.]
Archive 2007-12-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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[The first chapter will examine the Old English Orosius, and the temporalities which intersect both in textual translation as well as the re-appropriation of generic convention across historical time, positing “the nation” as a network in which texts, peoples and generic forms play a role in the creation of identity.]
Dissertation Fragments III: The Prospectus Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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Sort of a blues riff in textual form, all about jazz and shipping, prohibition and personality conflicts.
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Skills in textual editing can be translated to online editions.
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