architextural
architextural adjective: pertaining to architexture.
Adjective
architextural (comparative more architextural, superlative most architextural)
- Pertaining to architexture.
- Dickens's architextures do not present us with a form – of a building, of the city – as a meaning, system or structure. Rather, we are presented with the textual event, the architextural event, as a means of exposing the limits of fixed meaning, and, by this, the limits of the utterable.1995, Ruth Robbins, Julian Wolfreys, Victorian Identities, page 210
- In this spirit, the architextural inquiry looks to borders not as simple and pre-existent physicalities but as social representations that enforce a spatial code of proxemics, or distances.2005, Ian Townsend Gault, Heather Nora Nicol, Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World, page 297
- Eggcorn of architectural.
- Of course, this whole method of measuring architextural merit is pretty suspect. What happens if one of the compilers is agressive^([sic]) and starts unrolling loops? Bigger code, surely; but often faster too. (for example, does the MIPS compiler unroll daxpy? some of svd? others?)1989 November 4, Preston Briggs, “Unsafe at any speed”, in comp.arch (Usenet), retrieved 01 Jun 2022
- Who plays the biggest role.. is always up for grabs. I'd bet the architects involved are VERY willing to say they took only a supporting role!!! Yea right!! Nah.. they're probably bitching about the crazy designs that artists drew that they then needed to make into viable constructions. And stuff...1995 December 22, Thomas C. Waters, “Most Influencial^([sic]) Artist Ever . . . ?”, in rec.arts.fine (Usenet), retrieved 01 Jun 2022
Examples of architextural in a sentence
- Brontë manipulates readers' expectations through her architextural signals: for example, direct mention of Johnson's work when she shows Helen Burns reading it.2019, Nicholas J. Crowe, The Ways of Fiction:
- And stuff life^([sic]) the majic^([sic]) kingdom palace is based upon a real castle which is an architextural building.1995 December 22, Thomas C. Waters, “Most Influencial^([sic]) Artist Ever . . . ?”, in rec.arts.fine (Usenet), retrieved 01 Jun 2022:
Forms of architextural
| comparative | more architextural |
|---|---|
| superlative | most architextural |
Questions about architextural
- What does architextural mean?
- Architextural means pertaining to architexture.
- How do you use architextural in a sentence?
- Brontë manipulates readers' expectations through her architextural signals: for example, direct mention of Johnson's work when she shows Helen Burns reading it.
- What part of speech is architextural?
- Architextural is an adjective.
Words near architextural in the dictionary
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