Obs. [f. L. text-us TEXT sb.1 + -IST.] A textual scholar; = TEXTUARY sb. 1.
1631. R. H., Arraignm. Whole Creature, xii. § 3. 125. Popery affording more allegorizing Origenists, than sound Textuists.
1643. Milton, Divorce, To Parl. When I remember the little that our Saviour could prevail about this doctrine of Charity against the crabbed textuisis of his time, I make no wonder.
1700. Strype, Lightfoot’s Rem., Pref. 3. The author designed it for some, that desired to be good textuists.
