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noun

Text n.

1.

A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.

2.

(O. Eng. Law) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence. (R.)

3.

A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine. "How oft, when Paul has served us with a text, Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached!"

4.

Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.

5.

A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text.

6.

That part of a document (printed or electronic) comprising the words, especially the main body of expository words, in contrast to the illustrations, pictures, charts, tables, or other formatted material which contain graphic elements as a major component.

7.

Any communication composed of words.

8.

A textbook.

Text blindness. (Physiol.) See Word blindness, under Word.

Text letter, a large or capital letter. (Obs.)

Text pen, a kind of metallic pen used in engrossing, or in writing text-hand.

verb

Text v. t. To write in large characters, as in text hand. (Obs.)

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"Text" Quotes from Famous Books

... same parish with Allston wrote that he held fortnightly services among the negroes on ten plantations, and enlisted some of the literate slaves as lay readers. His restriction of these to the text of the prayer book, however, seems to have shorn them of power. The bulk of the slaves flocked to the more spontaneous exercises elsewhere; and the clergyman could find ground for satisfaction only in saying that frequently as many as two hundred slaves ...

— American Negro Slavery - A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime • Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

... rather ask, what hath he? It may soon be told what he hath, but it is hard to tell what he wants. Look what he hath, and ye find little or nothing, and therefore ye may conclude he wants all things. The text tells what he wants: (1) He wants righteousness; (2) He wants grace; (3) He wants glory, and hath no right to it. Men seek not what they carry from the womb. Therefore all men have come into the world ...

— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning

... half a dozen leaves, fell into the hands of Charles Lamb more than a hundred years after it was published. Charles bore it home, and set to work to supply, in his small neat hand, from another edition, what was missing from the text in his stall-bought copy. As he paid only sixpence for his prize, he could well afford the time it took him to write in on blank leaves, which he ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 48, October, 1861 • Various

... Corrected spelling of Breckinridge, John C. to match correct spelling as in text (based ...

— A Short History of Pittsburgh • Samuel Harden Church

... seems to me I'm sitting in that high-backed pew, the while The minister is preaching in that good old-fashioned style; And though I couldn't understand it all somehow I know The Bible was the text book in that church of Long Ago; He didn't preach on politics, but used the word of God, And even now I seem to see the people gravely nod, As though agreeing thoroughly with all he had to say, And then I see them thanking him before ...

— Just Folks • Edgar A. Guest

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