bibliothetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From biblio- + -thetical; compare bibliothetic.
Senses: examples: text: Was America known in the Fifth Century, as is now said, in the Bibliothetical Circles of Germany, on the Authority of Chinese Writings?
ref: 1851, Henry R[owe] Schoolcraft, “Appendix. Inquiries, Respecting the History, Present Condition and Future Prospects, of the Indian Tribes of the United States.”, in Historical and Statistical Information, Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States: Collected and Prepared under the Direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, per Act of Congress of March 3d, 1847, part I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lippincott, Grambo & Company, page 561:
text: 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.’
ref: 1851, John Kitto, editor, The Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature, 10th edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Mark H. Newman & Co., page 973:
text: 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.
ref: 1899 March, Anne Wallace, “Libraries”, in The School Review, page 184:
text: 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.
ref: 1906 March 13, Official Opinions of the Assistant Attorneys-General for the Post-Office Department from October 25, 1905, to June 26, 1908; Numbers from 1356 to 1600, Inclusive, volume IV, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1909, pages 102–103:
text: Smeed he is an outcast now / In utter bibliothetical disgrace.
ref: 1951 January, “The Sin of Athanasius Smeed”, in The Question Mark, volume VI, number 1, The Boston Public Library Professional Staff Association, page 15:
text: It is significant that so much of A rebours is a lapidary, a “florilegium,” bibliothetical description;[…]
ref: 1970 December, Lee Fontanella, “Parnassian Precept and a New Way of Seeing Casal’s Museo ideal”, in Comparative Literature Studies, volume 7, number 4, page 469:
text: 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.
ref: 1979 May 1, Mike Pearce, Stephen Thorpe, Don Revill, WA Munford, “Comment”, in New Library World, volume 80, number 5, pages 85–90:
text: But bibliothetical catastrophes continued throughout Chinese history, destroying countless thousands of works.
ref: 1999 March, Susan Whitfield, “In praise of the plagiarist”, in Index on Censorship, volume 28, number 2:
text: Moving across libraries. Bibliothetical migration patterns in academics.
ref: 2008 December, “Αντιγόνη—From an Optimal and Theoretical, Pluri- and Interdisciplinary As Well As Transversal Perspective”, in Speculative Grammarian, volume CLV, number 3:
synonyms: bibliothecal
bibliothecarial
bibliothecarian
bibliothecary
bibliothetic
librarial
glosses: Pertaining to libraries.