escritorial

English

Adjective

escritorial (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to writing.
   • 1987, Ernest Kellogg Gann, The Triumph, page 292:

     Despite his patronage of the escritorial arts, he was not a reader, so he tried storytellers and soon became bored.

   • 1992, Joseph McMinn, The Internationalism of Irish Literature and Drama, page 76:

     The escritorial component is a writing of attenuated comfort, atomistic consciousness echoing one form of holocaust or the other.

   • 2004, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Marianne Ping Huang, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Reinventions of the Novel, page 236:

     The clichés and the tropisms seem to play the roles of the escritorial Scylla and Charybdis . The writing vacillates constantly between one and the other, without being able to settle down anywhere.

   • 2009, John Vaughn, Unconfirmed Reports, page 183:

     In addition to food and clothing I was carrying another bag full of treats for the locals, and writing materials necessary for my escritorial duties.

   • 2013, Raúl Salinas, Louis G. Mendoza, raúlrsalinas and the Jail Machine: My Weapon Is My Pen, page 71:

     Ruling this confined estate as if it were an escritorial fiefdom must be a drag. Or so I would imagine.