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ferulary

ferulary adjective: characteristic of a schoolmaster, schoolmasterish.

Adjective

ferulary (comparative more ferulary, superlative most ferulary)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Characteristic of a schoolmaster, schoolmasterish.
    • Even academic translators of Jonson’s era like Barten Holyday (Persins, 1616) were not literalists. Holyday tells us that he freed himself from “ferulary [‘schoolmasterish’] supersitition to the letter” and took “the ancient libertie of a Translator [to use] a moderate paraphrase, where the...1975, T. R. Steiner, quoting Barten Holyday, English translation theory 1650–1800, Van Gorcum, →ISBN, page 12

Noun

ferulary (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Schoolmastership.

Forms of ferulary

comparativemore ferulary
superlativemost ferulary

Origin of ferulary

From ferule + -ary.

Words formed from ferulary

Questions about ferulary

What does ferulary mean?
Ferulary means characteristic of a schoolmaster, schoolmasterish.
What part of speech is ferulary?
Ferulary can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near ferulary in the dictionary

  1. ferula
  2. ferulaceous
  3. ferulae
  4. ferular
  5. ferulars
  6. ferulary
  7. ferulas
  8. ferulate
  9. ferulated
  10. ferulates
  11. ferule

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