ferulary

English

Etymology

ferule +‎ -ary

Adjective

ferulary (comparative more ferulary, superlative most ferulary)

1. (obsolete, rare) Characteristic of a schoolmaster, schoolmasterish.
   • 1975, T. R. Steiner, quoting Barten Holyday, English translation theory 1650–1800, Van Gorcum, →ISBN, page 12:

     Even academic translators of Jonson’s era like Barten Holyday (Persins, 1616) were not literalists. Holyday tells us that he freed himself from “ferulary [‘schoolmasterish’] supersitition to the letter” and took “the ancient libertie of a Translator [to use] a moderate paraphrase, where the obscurities did more require it.”

Derived terms

• subferulary

Noun

ferulary (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Schoolmastership.