textman

English

Etymology

text +‎ -man

Noun

textman (plural textmen)

1. (dated) One who is ready to quote texts.
   • Bishop Robert Sanderson

     Men's daily occasions for themselves or friends, and the necessities of common life require the doing of a thousand things within the compass of a few days, for which it would puzzle the best textman that liveth readily to bethink himself of a sentence in the Bible, clear enough to satisfy a scrupulous conscience of the lawfulness and expediency of what he is about to do […]