intext

English

Etymology

From in +‎ text.

Noun

intext (plural intexts)

1. (archaic) The text of a book.
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “To His Closet-Gods”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 267:

     Beſides rare ſvveets, I had a Book vvhich none / Co'd reade the Intext but my ſelfe alone.

2. A text that makes up part of a larger text.
   • 1990, Stephen Hutchings, A semiotic analysis of the short stories of Leonid Andreev, 1900-1909, page 89:

     Andreev's intexts are each, in some sense, miniatures of the larger text that includes them.

Further reading

• “intext”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.