intext

plural intexts

1. archaicThe text of a book.

   Beſides rare ſvveets, I had a Book vvhich none / Co'd reade the Intext but my ſelfe alone.

   1648, Robert Herrick, “To His Closet-Gods”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 267

2. A text that makes up part of a larger text.

   Andreev's intexts are each, in some sense, miniatures of the larger text that includes them.

   1990, Stephen Hutchings, A semiotic analysis of the short stories of Leonid Andreev, 1900-1909, page 89