textuary
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- noun A specialist in the study of the Scriptures.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Of or pertaining to the text; textual.
- noun A textualist; one who adheres strictly to the text.
- noun An expounder or critic of texts; a textual expositor or critic.
Examples
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Some, who have had the honour to be textuary in Divinity, are of opinion it shall be the same specifical fire with ours.
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Let not the twelve but the two tables be thy law: let Pythagoras be thy remembrancer, not thy textuary and final instructor: and learn the vanity of the world, rather from Solomon than Phocylydes.
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For as he was faithful in declaring the whole counsel of God to his people, in warning them against the evils of the time, so he was likewise a great textuary, close in handling any truth he discoursed upon, and in the application most home, warm and searching, shewing himself a most skilful casuist.
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It is that learning which it was my happiness from a child to be trained up in, by my ever honoured father, whose memory must always be very dear and precious to me: he often reminded me that a good textuary is a good divine; and that I should read other books with this in my eye, that I might be the better able to understand and apply the scripture.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
Note
The word 'textuary' comes ultimately from the Latin word 'textus' ('text')
