literary -
adj. 1 of, constituting, or occupied
with books or literature or written composition,
esp. of the kind valued for quality of form.
2 well informed about literature.
3 (of a word or idiom) used chiefly in
literary works or other formal writing.
literary executor see EXECUTOR . literary history the history of the treatment of a subject in literature.
literarily adv. literariness n. [L litterarius (as LETTER)]
