auctorial

[ awk-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-, ouk- ]

adjective

1. of, by, or pertaining to an author:

   auctorial changes made in the manuscript margin; auctorial rights.

auctorial

/ ɔːkˈtɔːrɪəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to an author

Word History and Origins

Origin of auctorial¹

1815–25; < Latin auctor author + -ial

Word History and Origins

Origin of auctorial¹

C19: from Latin auctor author

Example Sentences

Auctorial, awk′tōr-i-al, adj. of or pertaining to an author or his trade.

From Project Gutenberg

But, should this book take, we will mount the antithetical stilts of auctorial dignity—write a book as stale and dry as "the remainder biscuit after a long voyage," and as free from originality, wit, thought or suggestiveness, as the Queen's Speech, the President's Message, or a debate in the United States Senate.

From Project Gutenberg

Lucidity is no part of the auctorial task.

From Time Magazine Archive

To four Americans and four U.S. communities came the second greatest honor the Church of Rome can bestow: New York's plump, tireless, globetrotting, auctorial* Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman learned of his elevation on the eve of going home to his father's for Christmas in Whitman, Mass. Asked if his appointment made this his happiest homecoming, he said: "The happiest was the day I came home ordained after five years away and said Mass for my father and mother."

From Time Magazine Archive

With facsimile copies made available, scholars and the owners of rare books will be spared mutual worry and bother in the scholars' searches for emendations, textual changes, auctorial notations.

From Time Magazine Archive