Now rare. [f. TEXT sb.1]
† 1. trans. To inscribe, write, or print in a text-hand or in capital or large letters. Also fig. Obs.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (1871), 15. A chronographical Latin table … in a fair text hand, texting unto us, how, in the sceptredom of Edward the Confessor, the sands first began to grow into sight at low water.
1599. Shaks., Much Ado, V. i. 185. Yea and text vnder-neath, heere dwells Benedicke the married man.
1607. Dekker, Wh. of Babylon, Wks. 1873, II. 265. Vowes haue I writ so deepe,… So texted them in characters capitall, I cannot race them.
c. 1616. Fletcher & Massinger, Thierry & Theod., II. i. Condemn me for A most malicious slanderer, nay, texte it Upon my forehead.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., VII. 315. That such as … past … might read them as perfectly and distinctly, as if they had beene texted in Capitall Letters.
1631. T. Powell, Tom All Trades, 1. The Scriveners at Temple-barre had no imployment, but … texting of Bills for letting of Chambers in Chancery-lane.
1639. Shirley, Maid’s Rev., III. i. Would … every character [had] Been tex’d with blood!
b. trans. To write in a text-hand upon. c. intr. To write in text-hand.
1660. G. Tomlyn, Patent Specif., No. 128. A new … way to text and flourish velumes and parchments in blacke and white.
1869. Lonsdale Gloss., Text, to write an engrossing hand or German text.
1884. [implied in TEXTER].
† 2. a. intr. To cite texts. b. trans. To cite a text at or against (a person). Obs.
1564–78. Bulleyn, Dial. agst. Pest. (1888), 13. M. … And how like you this texte? A. Texte how they will texte, I will trust none of them all.
1615. Sir E. Hoby, Curry-combe, i. 11. When his wench told him that he kissed like a Clowter, he could text her with Labia Sacerdotis custodiunt sapientiam.
