atextual
English
Adjective
atextual (comparative more atextual, superlative most atextual)
- Not textual; not derived from written works.
- 1983, Edward W. Said, The World, the Text, and the Critic, page 45:
- What Marx attacks are the atextual theses that history is made up of free events and that history is guided by superior individuals.
- (law) Of an interpretation of a statute or similar governing provision, derived from something other than the text of the provision.
- Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 (2007), Scalia, J., dissenting:
- Neither party to the present case challenges the atextual extension of the habeas statute to United States citizens held beyond the territorial jurisdictions of the United States courts...
- Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 (2007), Scalia, J., dissenting:
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