Meaning of bibliothetical | Babel Free
Definitions
Pertaining to libraries.
not-comparable
Examples
“Was America known in the Fifth Century, as is now said, in the Bibliothetical Circles of Germany, on the Authority of Chinese Writings?”
“The Memnonium is said to have been built about the time of Moses (b.c. 1571); over the entrance gateway to the library was inscribed, ‘Remedy, or Balsam for Souls.’ Over the mouldering door which led to the bibliothetical repository, Champollion read, written over the heads of Thoth and Safkh (who were the male and female deities of arts, sciences, and literature), the remarkably appropriate titles of ‘President of the Library,’ and ‘Lady of Letters.’”
“The Library Journal is not only the official organ of the American Library Association, but its volumes form the best bibliothetical library in any language.”
“A library association whose object as set forth in its charter is the promotion of “library interests of the country be exchanging views, reaching conclusions, and inducing cooperation in all departments of bibliothetical science and economy,” etc., and whose charter and by-laws indicate and whose secretary declares that it is not a money-making organization, is a “professional society” within the terms of the act of July 16, 1894; and its publications should be admitted to the second-class mailing privileges extended by such act.”
“Smeed he is an outcast now / In utter bibliothetical disgrace.”
“It is significant that so much of A rebours is a lapidary, a “florilegium,” bibliothetical description;[…]”
“There is an implication in the first two of the quotations above that a new breed of ‘librarian’ is necessary to accomplish the bibliothetical tasks thrown up by computer access efficiently.”
“But bibliothetical catastrophes continued throughout Chinese history, destroying countless thousands of works.”
“Moving across libraries. Bibliothetical migration patterns in academics.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.