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Marginal   /mˈɑrdʒənəl/   Listen
adjective
Marginal  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to a margin.
2.
Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.
3.
At the lower limit; barely sufficient; as, of marginal utility.





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"Marginal" Quotes from Famous Books



... for several years, with the late Rev. F. F. Gough of the C. M. S., in the revision of a version of the New Testament in the colloquial of Ningpo for the British and Foreign Bible Society. In undertaking this work, in my short-sightedness I saw nothing beyond the use that the Book, and the marginal references, would be to the native Christians; but I have often seen since that, without those months of feeding and feasting on the Word of GOD, I should have been quite unprepared to form, on its present basis, a mission like the CHINA ...
— A Retrospect • James Hudson Taylor
... appears in a marginal note by Nicolas to a letter from the king to the mayor, 28 Dec.—Ibid., ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume II • Reginald R. Sharpe
... known to have interpreted Horace in his school. This is the oldest direct evidence of the scholastic use of Horace, but other proofs are to be seen in the commentaries of the medieval period, all of which are of a kind suitable for school use, and in the marginal annotations, ...
— Horace and His Influence • Grant Showerman
... Redeemer, it seemed, had no less than four kinds of righteousness, three to keep, which he could not do without, and one kind to give away. Every detail of the case was supported by a little cluster of marginal texts, and no doubt it appeared as logical and simple to the author as a problem or an equation. But what an extraordinary form of religion it all was! There was not the least misgiving in the mind of the author. The Bible was to him a perfectly unquestioned manifesto of the mind ...
— Beside Still Waters • Arthur Christopher Benson
... coming war and the proposals for preparation were received by the mass of the Syracusans with scornful incredulity. The speech of one of their popular orators is preserved to us in Thucydides, [Lib. vi. sec. 36 et seq., Arnold's edition. I have almost literally transcribed some of the marginal epitomes of the original speech.] and many of its topics might, by a slight alteration of names and details, serve admirably for the party among ourselves at present which opposes the augmentation of our forces, and derides the idea of our being in any peril from the ...
— The Fifteen Decisive Battles of The World From Marathon to Waterloo • Sir Edward Creasy, M.A.


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