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noun

Text n.

1.

A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.

2.

(O. Eng. Law) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence. (R.)

3.

A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine. "How oft, when Paul has served us with a text, Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached!"

4.

Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.

5.

A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text.

6.

That part of a document (printed or electronic) comprising the words, especially the main body of expository words, in contrast to the illustrations, pictures, charts, tables, or other formatted material which contain graphic elements as a major component.

7.

Any communication composed of words.

8.

A textbook.

Text blindness. (Physiol.) See Word blindness, under Word.

Text letter, a large or capital letter. (Obs.)

Text pen, a kind of metallic pen used in engrossing, or in writing text-hand.

verb

Text v. t. To write in large characters, as in text hand. (Obs.)

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"Text" Quotes from Famous Books

... honour of patronising him, as a Representative Man; but their real text-book, you will find, is Proclus. That hapless philosophaster's a priori method, even his very verbiage, is dear to their souls; for they copy it through wet and dry, through sense and nonsense. But as for Plato-when I find them using Plato's weapons, I shall believe ...

— Phaethon • Charles Kingsley

... weak woman with even one argument in her unequal contest with that imperious creature, man—if we have awarded to a sex, as Mrs. Caudle herself was wont to declare, "put upon from the beginning," the slightest means of defence—if we have supplied a solitary text to meet any one of the manifold wrongs with which woman, in her household life, is continually pressed by her tyrannic taskmaster, man,—we feel that we have only paid back one grain, hardly one, of that mountain of more than gold ...

— Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures • Douglas Jerrold

... books was a very large volume, an arithmetic text, heavily bound in leather. It was Pinocchio's pride. Among all his books, he liked that ...

— The Adventures of Pinocchio • C. Collodi--Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini

... startling perversion of the original text I saw in the churchyard at Saundersfoot, South Wales, where the stone-carver had evidently had his lesson by dictation, and made many original mistakes, the most notable of which was in ...

— In Search Of Gravestones Old And Curious • W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent

... Hamilton, "is it not enough to be dry nurse to a nation?" But he could not refuse, and during the few hours he snatched for sleep he was half strangled. By day the boy sat quietly in a corner of the library, and studied the text-books his guardian bought him. Betsey did all she could to win him, but he had no faith in people who could not speak his language. Angelica, like all of Hamilton's children, knew something of French, and he liked ...

— The Conqueror • Gertrude Franklin Atherton

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