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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(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 obscurities did more require it.”
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Ferulary means (obsolete, rare) Characteristic of a schoolmaster, schoolmasterish..
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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.”
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