intext

The text of a book.

Noun

  1. The text of a book.
    • Beſides rare ſvveets, I had a Book vvhich none / Co'd reade the Intext but my ſelfe alone. - 1648, Robert Herrick, “To His Closet-Gods”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams,...
  2. A text that makes up part of a larger text.
    • Andreev's intexts are each, in some sense, miniatures of the larger text that includes them. - 1990, Stephen Hutchings, A semiotic analysis of the short stories of Leonid Andreev, 1900-1909, page 89:

Origin

From in + text.

Forms

intexts