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Definition of Auctorial
1. Adjective. Of or by or typical of an author. "Auctorial flights of imagination"
Definition of Auctorial
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an author (especially a specified author) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Auctorial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auctorial
Literary usage of Auctorial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1842)
"We say auctorial, because of Mr. Lever, personally we know no more than of any
other gentleman Wedge or Screw or Pulley ..."
2. The Bookman (1895)
"... the name of the auctorial Bushman, had no associations whatsoever ; but the
book was evidently broken up into corn- passable portions, and therefore, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"... plain tale of honourable and generous dealing in literary wares—will only go
a certain length in vindicating the " trade" in the auctorial imagination. ..."
4. Southern Literary Messenger (1858)
"We have to fear, however, that even if Mr. Buckle should live long enough to
realize all his auctorial expectations, he will hardly be fortunate enough to ..."
5. Our Short Story Writers by Blanche Colton Williams (1920)
"He cites Gautier's words to the point that "everything passes but art," and he
enumerates clarity, beauty and symmetry among the auctorial virtues that ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1866)
"Last of all, auctorial pride in the young man's width of shoulder, blended with
soft recollections of the time he dandled him, “Why, Cradock! ..."
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