intext

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

in +‎ text

Noun[edit]

intext (plural intexts)

  1. (archaic) The text of a book.
    • 1648, Robert Herrick, “To his Closet-Gods”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC:
      I had a book which none
      Could read the intext but myself alone.
      The spelling has been modernized.
  2. A text that makes up part of a larger text.
    • 1990, Stephen Hutchings, A semiotic analysis of the short stories of Leonid Andreev, 1900-1909, page 89:
      Andreev's intexts are each, in some sense, miniatures of the larger text that includes them.

References[edit]

“intext”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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