a. nonce-wd. [f. TEXT sb.1, after tractarian, etc.] Dealing with or based upon an isolated text, or texts.
1867. Seebohm, Oxford Reformers, i. § 2. 11. The scholastic divines … had fallen into a method of exposition almost exclusively textarian. Ibid., 15. They [Colet’s lectures at Oxford 1496–7] were not textarian.
