auctorial

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I strongly disagree with the idea that knowing the poem's auctorial history somehow enforces a particular reading.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to an author.

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  • I strongly disagree with the idea that knowing the poem's auctorial history somehow enforces a particular reading. —  PoetryFoundation.org
  • Maybe it it a cry to the beyond to be held auctorial in love. —  Out On The Stoop
  • The auctorial report (which, by the way, is full of common sense) envisages immense changes in the book market. —  Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911
  • -- L'art robust seul a l'éternité_, precisely as Gautier points out, with bracing common-sense; and it is excellent thus to comprehend that to-day, as always, only through exercise of the auctorial virtues of distinction and clarity, of beauty and symmetry, of tenderness and truth and urbanity, may a man in reason attempt to insure his books against oblivion's voracity. —  The Certain Hour
  • One is made to feel that he, like Charteris, may the better consummate in his art the auctorial virtues of distinction and clarity, beauty and symmetry, tenderness and truth and urbanity, precisely because his personal life is bereft of those virtues. —  The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking
 

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  1. From Latin auctor, author; see author.

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  1. from Latin auctor (see author) + -ial. Cf. authorial.
 

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/ɔkˈtoʊriəl/
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