[L. textus TEXT.]
1. A manuscript or book of the Gospels; a Bible; = TEXT sb.1 3 b. Textus-case, a case or cover for this (Cent. Dict., 1891).
1874. Micklethwaite, Mod. Par. Churches, 52. The gospeller having received the textus or gospel-book from the altar.
1877. J. D. Chambers, Div. Worship, 275. At Salisbury, 1222, was one great Textus.
1906. Athenæum, 21 April, 478. A boss of this value was originally affixed to the centre of a Textus of the Gospels,… often the chief ornament of early altars.
2. Textus Receptus, literally, received text; spec. the received text of the Greek New Testament.
Strictly applied to the text of the second Elzevir edition of 1633, to which the publisher prefixed the assertion, ‘Textum ergo habes nunc ab omnibus receptum’ (Thou hast therefore the text now received by all); but commonly extended to any reprint of this (or of that of Stephanus 1550, on which it was founded) with or without slight revision, but without the aid of the early MSS. since discovered or published.
1856. T. H. Horne, Introd. Text. Crit. N. T., 124. From this sort of boast sprang the expression ‘Textus Receptus.’
1885. Athenæum, 5 Sept., 296/1. Pascal’s … ‘Letters’ … suffered … from … the … partiality of uncultivated admirers for an inaccurate textus receptus.
1901. F. G. Kenyon, Handbk. Textual Crit. N. T., 229. Some words of this re-translation … still linger in our Textus Receptus to the present day.
