Definition of literary

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Literary (a.) Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation..

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Plus :: Plus (a.) Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual..
Scribbler :: Scribbler (n.) One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack.
Belles-lettres :: Belles-lettres (n. pl.) Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
Appendix :: Appendix (n.) Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies..
Emend :: Emend (v. t.) To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal..
L''envoy :: L'envoy (n.) One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry..
Basbleu :: Basbleu (n.) A bluestocking; a literary woman.
Critical :: Critical (n.) Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions..
Prospectus :: Prospectus (n.) A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work..
Potpourri :: Potpourri (n.) A literary production composed of parts brought together without order or bond of connection.
Illiteracy :: Illiteracy (n.) An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.
Topic :: Topic (n.) The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse, or argument, or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head..
Literature :: Literature (n.) The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry..
Livraison :: Livraison (n.) A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
Literature :: Literature (n.) The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work..
Lyceum :: Lyceum (n.) An association for debate and literary improvement.
Copyright :: Copyright (n.) The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books..
Canvas :: Canvas (n.) A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make..
Rosary :: Rosary (n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections..
Analecta :: Analecta (n. pl.) A collection of literary fragments.
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