Adjective : auctorial changes made in the manuscript margin; auctorial rights. From Dictionary.com.
The embers of my auctorial spirit have taken pale fire again. From Wordnik.com. [August 15th, 2006] Reference
I feel like I should correct a misapprehension re: auctorial intent, there. From Wordnik.com. [is it just another children's story that's been declawed?] Reference
Tens of thousands of other works languish in anonymity or auctorial obscurity. From Wordnik.com. [Stromata Blog:] Reference
Becoming an auctorial construct in some ways is becoming a fictional character. From Wordnik.com. [life was easy when it was boring] Reference
Copyright scholars and publishers on crazy auctorial theories about books and tech. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: September 25, 2005 - October 1, 2005 Archives] Reference
I don't know how much latitude Penguin allows for auctorial and editorial preferences. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THE BAFFLING STRUGGLE FOR CULTURE.] Reference
Of course, auctorial intention, as revealed through interview answers, only takes us so far. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Roiphe’s Critical Inadequacies: A Case Study : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
The photo you charmingly label as non-auctorial proves that you have inhumanly pointy eyebrows. From Wordnik.com. [Professionally Photographed « Whatever] Reference
From on high, one supposes, words of auctorial wisdom were intended to shower down on the groundlings. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
I think this might be a net-first -- an act of auctorial exhibitionism that no one has ever attempted before. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: April 20, 2003 - April 26, 2003 Archives] Reference
But so far, nearly everything I have written has pushed my auctorial limits in some way, and usually pushed them hard. From Wordnik.com. [hark! is that the sound of a lasagna noodle being laid on a bed of ricotta cheese?] Reference
But then on the other hand that's one of my favorite auctorial tricks, so maybe I will just proclaim it a feature and carry on. From Wordnik.com. [wore me down like a road] Reference
The article touches on a discussion that calls traditional assumptions about auctorial ownership into question, as well, I think. From Wordnik.com. [Just What the Doctor Ordered - an Elephant in the Bathtub] Reference
Admittedly, when you write about Fate, such things are inevitable heh, and at least Powers can usually hide it with auctorial hand-waving. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
It amuses the heck out of me, how much it annoys me when I can detect my own auctorial voice heavily present in a sentence or a paragraph. From Wordnik.com. [there will always be a faster gun, but there'll never be another one like you.] Reference
If you don't mind the spell of transport being subconsciously broken by auctorial interjections, by all means go forth and enjoy Van Helsing. From Wordnik.com. [Debate Fares Better Than Expected] Reference
What I meant to show in my several examples was that auctorial preaching in stories is forgivable when and only when it entertains its audience. From Wordnik.com. [INTERVIEW: John C. Wright] Reference
However, it's a list of auctorial tricks that have annoyed me recently, and made me want to stop reading something I might otherwise have enjoyed. From Wordnik.com. [with the thoughts you'd be thinkin' you could be another Lincoln] Reference
Some of that may be the auctorial "Awww, and now the book is leaving home for school" thing, of course, but on the other hand, it may be effective. From Wordnik.com. [i am friend to the undertow i take you in i don't let go] Reference
The rest of the story combined the aftermaths of the war with the interlocked love story in a series of mostly auctorial intervention rather than a coherent story. From Wordnik.com. [The New Space Opera, part 2] Reference
In Gothic writings fantasy predominates over reality, the strange over the commonplace, and the supernatural over the natural, with one definite auctorial intent: to scare. From Wordnik.com. [Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother] Reference
It would take great humility to write this novel: humility, not the professorial, historical, commercial, and auctorial cleverness that went into his Jim Bridger mountain man books. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
There's a strong element of auctorial fiat in the final showdown, and it has the occasional Da Vinci Code problem that the allegedly impenetrable clue-tangles are actually pretty obvious. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
Yet, as if making an appeal to the public to judge between the auctorial abstract and the representational concrete, Mr. PINERO not only publishes his playbook, but sells it in the theatre. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 5, 1891] Reference
Maybe it it a cry to the beyond to be held auctorial in love. From Wordnik.com. [Out On The Stoop] Reference
The auctorial report (which, by the way, is full of common sense) envisages immense changes in the book market. From Wordnik.com. [Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911] Reference
I strongly disagree with the idea that knowing the poem's auctorial history somehow enforces a particular reading. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
Yes, I’m gravely dismayed at Ms. Hamilton’s auctorial direction. From Wordnik.com. [Crazy Screechy Monkeys 1, Best-Selling Author 0 « Whatever] Reference
There are a couple of things you can get from an article such as Edmunson’s, from interesting facts about the subject to entertaining anecdotes told in a strong auctorial voice. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Edmundson Demonstrates Boredom | Live Granades] Reference
I am an auctorial construct. From Wordnik.com. [breathe in, breathe out, move on] Reference
Usual auctorial dreads and neuroses. From Wordnik.com. [Marching Morons] Reference
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