a. and sb. [f. next.] Belonging to a library or librarian; sb. a librarian.
[a. 1648. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 152. Diodorus Siculus, that generall Bibliothec.]
1816. Colman, Lumin. Hist., ix. in Br. Grins (1872), 309. Cadell … exclaimed in bibliothec state, ‘Who sells great authors must himself be great.’
1859. Cunningham, Hist. Ch. Scotl., II. 317. Never had a burgess of St. Andrews been capable of winning his bread by learning save one, and that was their present bibliothec.
Bibliothec, library: see BIBLIOTHÈQUE.
