Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Belonging to a library.

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  • adjective Belonging to a library.

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  • adjective Belonging to a library.

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  • adjective of or relating to a library or bibliotheca or a librarian

Etymologies

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Latin bibliothecalis. See bibliotheke.

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Examples

  • But his facts and figures are in the main to be relied upon; and we shall make use of them as sufficiently accurate to give our readers a general view of the present bibliothecal condition of the principal countries of Europe.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

  • Many works had been destroyed in the first "bibliothecal catastrophe", the holocaust of literature instigated by Ch'in Shih Huang-ti's minister Li Ssŭ (213 B.C.).

    Discourses On Salt and Iron 1931

  • Nor were these materials for Satanic history the only prosaic and faithful chronicles which the bibliothecal blanket afforded.

    Paul Clifford — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Nor were these materials for Satanic history the only prosaic and faithful chronicles which the bibliothecal blanket afforded.

    Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • -- $25, for the bibliothecal and collegiate expenses of

    Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

  • People "as an original contribution to bibliothecal literature, without

    The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

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