ferulary

comparative more ferulary · superlative most ferulary

1. obsoleterareCharacteristic 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.”

   1975, T. R. Steiner, quoting Barten Holyday, English translation theory 1650–1800, Van Gorcum, →ISBN, page 12

1. obsoleterareuncountableSchoolmastership.