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bibliothetical

bibliothetical adjective: pertaining to libraries.

Adjective

bibliothetical (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to libraries.
    • Was America known in the Fifth Century, as is now said, in the Bibliothetical Circles of Germany, on the Authority of Chinese Writings?1851, Henry R[owe] Schoolcraft, “Appendix. Inquiries, Respecting the History, Present Condition and Future Prospects, of the Indian Tribes of the United States.”, in Historical and Statistical...
    • The Memnonium is said to have been built about the time of Moses (b.c. 1571); over the entrance gateway to the library was inscribed, ‘Remedy, or Balsam for Souls.’ Over the mouldering door which led to the bibliothetical repository, Champollion read, written over the heads of Thoth and Safkh (who...1851, John Kitto, editor, The Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature, 10th edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Mark H. Newman & Co., page 973

Examples of bibliothetical in a sentence

  • The Library Journal is not only the official organ of the American Library Association, but its volumes form the best bibliothetical library in any language.1899 March, Anne Wallace, “Libraries”, in The School Review, page 184:
  • Smeed he is an outcast now / In utter bibliothetical disgrace.1951 January, “The Sin of Athanasius Smeed”, in The Question Mark, volume VI, number 1, The Boston Public Library Professional Staff...
  • It is significant that so much of A rebours is a lapidary, a “florilegium,” bibliothetical description;[…]1970 December, Lee Fontanella, “Parnassian Precept and a New Way of Seeing Casal’s Museo ideal”, in Comparative Literature Studies, volume...
  • There is an implication in the first two of the quotations above that a new breed of ‘librarian’ is necessary to accomplish the bibliothetical tasks thrown up by computer access efficiently.1979 May 1, Mike Pearce, Stephen Thorpe, Don Revill, WA Munford, “Comment”, in New Library World, volume 80, number 5, pages 85–90:

Synonyms of bibliothetical

Origin of bibliothetical

From biblio- + -thetical; compare bibliothetic.

Questions about bibliothetical

What does bibliothetical mean?
Bibliothetical means pertaining to libraries.
How do you use bibliothetical in a sentence?
The Library Journal is not only the official organ of the American Library Association, but its volumes form the best bibliothetical library in any language.
What part of speech is bibliothetical?
Bibliothetical is an adjective.

Words near bibliothetical in the dictionary

  1. bibliotherapies
  2. bibliotherapist
  3. bibliotherapists
  4. bibliotherapy
  5. bibliothetic
  6. bibliothetical
  7. bibliotic
  8. bibliotics
  9. bibliotist
  10. bibliotists
  11. bibliovore

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