[f. the name of Sir T. Bodley, who in 1597 restored and refounded the Library of the University of Oxford.]
a. adj. Of or pertaining to Sir T. Bodley or the Library bearing his name; hence b. quasi-sb. The Oxford University Library; also colloquially called Bodley. c. fig. and transf.
1663. Cowley, Verses & Ess. (1669), 7. The mysterious Library, The Beatifick Bodley of the Deity.
1710. H. Bedford, Vind. Ch. Eng., 45. The Bodleian Copies of the Articles.
1862. Whyte-Melville, Ins. Bar, vi. (ed. 12), 297. The richest mental food the Bodleian itself can afford.
1884. Spurgeon, Clew of Maze, 33. It is a million-times magnified Bodleian of teaching.
