Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who hides or buries books, or keeps them under lock and key.
Wiktionary
- n. rare One who "buries" books by hiding them, locking them away, or otherwise shutting them up and keeping them from use
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare One who hides away books, as in a tomb.
Etymologies
- From French bibliotaphe, from biblio- + Ancient Greek τάφος ("burial, tomb"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“On the other hand, a man may be a bibliotaph simply from inability to get at his books.”
“Two interesting types of maniac are known respectively as the bibliotaph and the biblioclast.”
“The dog-in-the-manger bibliotaph is the worst; he uses his books but little himself, and allows others to use them not at all.”
“The most genial lover of books who has walked city streets for many a day was a bibliotaph.”
“The bibliotaph buries books; not literally, but sometimes with as much effect as if he had put his books underground.”
“The late Sir Thomas Phillipps, of Middle Hill, was a remarkable instance of a bibliotaph.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bibliotaph’.
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
blandish, blazon, blench, blendling, blendure, blewit, blunge, blype, borné, borsella, borzoi, boscage and 582 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Who hid the keys?
Words for people who like to hide ideas, objects, and other living things
censor, bibliotaph, smuggler, stoic, obfuscator, cryptographer, novelist, magician, statistician, beautician, mule, abductor and 29 more...
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Wordplayer's Wonderful Words
chaparral, grotesque, knork, newsmonger, thitherwards, fackeltanz, kakistocracy, sforzando, compendium, frump, inquere, phosphene and 100 more...
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Unsorted
poliorcetikon, lethologica, aegrotat, haha, logolepsy, logomisia, anfractuosity, nudiustertian, tontine, herostrat, acroamatic, bibliotaph and 132 more...
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wordhoard
dilatory, ataraxia, hermit, cabana, hut, dome, vestigial, porcine, crapulous, usufruct, curmudgeon, bombastic and 229 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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Favourite Words
sanguine, irk, pith, venerate, anomaly, reprobate, ethereal, antediluvian, obfuscate, wistful, plethora, absinthe and 108 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Misdirector's Cut
Hey...
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...sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...
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Words featured in Mrs. Byrne's Dictio...
Selections from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books, 1974). Definitions in the comments when not available elsewhere.
apanthropy, anoetic, aristology, ayne, bibliopole, bibliotaph, calecannon, caoine, catlap, chirospasm, clamjamfry, coadunate and 174 more...
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Biblio-Words
biblioclast, bibliognost, biblioklept, bibliokleptomaniac, bibliolatry, bibliomancy, bibliomane, bibliopegy, bibliophagist, bibliophobia, bibliopoesy, bibliopole and 19 more...
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Cool Words
Words that are awesome to use, if you can find a good place in a sentence to use them!
asunder, zero, scarecrow, chronic, crooked, aftermath, aquatic, karma, deadpan, devil, berserker, bibliotaph and 32 more...
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words to learn
ecclesiarch, decennium, decennary, galactosemia, tautogeneity, quadrature, vellum, wainwright, addax, quadrumane, omnisentient, glyphography and 75 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bibliotaph.
reesetee *ducks behind bulletproof book cart* Feb 25, 2010
bilby SET THE BOOKS FREE OR WE SHOOT A LIBRARIAN EVERY TEN MINUTES. Feb 24, 2010
quotato Yes, what a waste of a book. Yet, sometimes we have to lock our books up in a storage bin because we can't walk on the floor anymore...:*) Feb 24, 2010
whichbe n. - person keeping his or her books secret or locked up. May 15, 2008