ferulary

adj, noun — 2 senses

ferulary

adj

Etymology From ferule + -ary.

1

Obsolete, Rare Characteristic of a schoolmaster, schoolmasterish.

  • Even academic translators of Jonson’s era like Barten Holyday (Persins, 1616) were not literalists. Holyday tells us that he freed himself from “ferulary [‘schoolmasterish’] supersitition to the letter” and took “the ancient libertie of a Translator [to use] a moderate paraphrase, where the obscurities did more require it.”1975, T. R. Steiner, quoting Barten Holyday, English translation theory 1650–1800, Van Gorcum, →ISBN, page 12:
Derived terms
subferulary

ferulary

noun

Etymology From ferule + -ary.

1

Obsolete, Rare Schoolmastership.

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