a.; also autorial. [f. AUTHOR; after words from L. -ōrius: see -ORIAL. Autorial is a futile variation; L. analogies would give auctorial.] Pertaining to an author (of books).
1796. Ritson, in Four C. Eng. Lett., 346. A mass of error both typographical and authorial.
1816. Scott, Antiq., xiv. I am a total stranger to authorial vanity.
a. 1847. Poe, E. A. Lewis, Wks. 1864, III. 248. The autorial merits of Mrs. Lewis.
1882. Athenæum, 1 April, 405/2. There is a good deal to be said, after all, for the authorial ‘we.’
