Literary

a.	1.
	1.	Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. - Johnson.
	2.	Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man. In the literary as well as fashionable world. - Mason. Literary property a - Property which consists in written or printed compositions. b - The exclusive right of publication as recognized and limited by law.

Adj.	1.	literary - of or relating to or characteristic of literature; "literary criticism"
	2.	literary - knowledgeable about literature; "a literary style" Synonyms: well-written
	3.	literary - appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing; "when trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style"

academic, belletristic, bibliophagic, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise, bookish, booky, classical, cultivated, cultured, donnish, educated, erudite, formal, inkhorn, learned, lettered, literate, pedantic, refined, scholarly, scholastic, well-read, written

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