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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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..
Dictate :: Dictate (v. i.) To compose literary works; to tell what shall be written or said by another.
Collaborator :: Collaborator (n.) An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor..
Garreteer :: Garreteer (n.) One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack.
Annual :: Annual (n.) A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
Composition :: Composition (n.) The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music..
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..
Rosary :: Rosary (n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections..
Academical :: Academical (a.) Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific..
Analecta :: Analecta (n. pl.) A collection of literary fragments.
Plagiarist :: Plagiarist (n.) One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary..
Criticism :: Criticism (n.) The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism..
Edition :: Edition (n.) A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare..
Critical :: Critical (n.) Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions..
Topic :: Topic (n.) The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse, or argument, or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head..
Person :: Person (n.) A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character..
Scholarship :: Scholarship (n.) Literary education.
Book :: Book (n.) A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of Paradise Lost..
Redact :: Redact (v. t.) To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit..
Fellow :: Fellow (n.) A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society..
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