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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Scholarship :: Scholarship (n.) Literary education.
Illustration :: Illustration (n.) A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
Rosary :: Rosary (n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections..
Hack :: Hack (n.) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
Basbleu :: Basbleu (n.) A bluestocking; a literary woman.
Prakrit :: Prakrit (n.) Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects..
Reading :: Reading (n.) Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading..
Constructiveness :: Constructiveness (n.) The faculty which enables one to construct, as in mechanical, artistic, or literary matters..
Livraison :: Livraison (n.) A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
Elaborate :: Elaborate (v. t.) To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work..
Writer :: Writer (n.) One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels..
Collaborator :: Collaborator (n.) An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor..
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..
Pursuit :: Pursuit (v. t.) Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit..
Collegian :: Collegian (n.) A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college..
Athenaeum :: Athenaeum (n.) A literary or scientific association or club.
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or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work..
Critic :: Critic (n.) One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer..
Potboiler :: Potboiler (n.) A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living..
Literate :: Literate (n.) A literary man.
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