Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ferulary

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fer-u-lary
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characteristic of a schoolmaster, schoolmasterish.

Obsolete

noun

Schoolmastership.

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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.”"

Etymology

From ferule + -ary.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ferule

Usage

Inflected Forms

more ferulary (comparative) most ferulary (superlative)

Derived Forms

subferulary

Questions

What does ferulary mean?: Characteristic of a schoolmaster, schoolmasterish.
Where does ferulary come from?: From ferule + -ary.

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