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nded from, or akin to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.

An affected woman of polite society, esp. one of the literary women of the French salons of the 17th century.

Propriety; correctness. [Obs.] Camden. Literary property. (Law) See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge of the "properties" of a theater.

rding a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work.

act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning.

s or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit.

Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.

To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's Remains.

A remaking or recasting; an adaptation, esp. of a literary work or musical composition.

A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections. Every day propound to yourself a rosary or chaplet of good works to present to God at night. Jer. Taylor.

e Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from w…

f learning; a learned person; one versed in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant. Shak. Locke.

Literary education. [R.] Any other house of scholarship. Milton.

One who scribles; a literary hack. The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine. Granville.

th red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts. Milton. Some kinds of literary pursuits . . . have been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule. V. Knox.

The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

Expressed in a brief, pointed manner. Staccato and peremptory [literary criticism]. G. Eliot.

Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work. And praise the easy vigor of a life Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. Pope.

A building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work. "His cheery little study." Hawthorne.