Ferulary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ferulary is an adjective meaning (obsolete, rare) Characteristic of a schoolmaster, schoolmasterish.
Meaning
(obsolete, rare) Characteristic of a schoolmaster, schoolmasterish.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, rare) Schoolmastership.
Example Sentences
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 obscurities did more require it.”
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include schoolmasterish, schoolmarmish, schoolmistressy, schoolish, chivalresque, scholarly.
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