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Textbook   /tˈɛkstbˌʊk/   Listen
Textbook

noun
1.
A book prepared for use in schools or colleges.  Synonyms: school text, schoolbook, text, text edition.  "The professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"
adjective
1.
According to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical.  Synonym: casebook.  "A textbook example"






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"Textbook" Quotes from Famous Books



... delegates between the supreme judicatories of the several denominations. 3. Cooperation of the different associated churches in voluntary societies, notably such as Bible, Tract, Sabbath-school and Foreign Mission Societies. 4. The more extensive use of the Bible as a textbook in theological, congregational, and Sunday-school institutions. 5. Occasional free sacramental communion by all whose views of duty allow it. 6. A general, stated anniversary celebration and smaller state celebrations, also ...
— American Lutheranism - Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General - Council, United Synod in the South) • Friedrich Bente

... edict of Parlement into miserable banishment. He did not aim at destruction of the old order, but he depicted an ideal State and to attain that ideal State men butchered their fellows without mercy. The Social Contract became the textbook of the first revolutionary party, and none admired Rousseau more ardently than the ruthless wielder of tyranny who followed out the theorist's idea that in a republic it was necessary sometimes to have ...
— Heroes of Modern Europe • Alice Birkhead

... be used either as a supplementary reader in American history for the fifth and sixth grades in elementary schools or for collateral reading in connection with a formal textbook of a somewhat ...
— Heroes of the Middle West - The French • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... Dibdin's London Theatre in 1815, and in Cumberland's British Theatre in 1826. According to Caskey and other sources the play was thus reprinted more than a dozen times by the middle of the nineteenth century. Since then it has declined in favor and has seldom been reprinted, even in textbook anthologies covering ...
— The Gamester (1753) • Edward Moore

... when from a new edition of Horne's Introduction to the Scriptures, the standard textbook of orthodoxy, its accustomed use of fossils to prove the universality of ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White


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