intext

in +‎ text

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; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC:

     I had a book which none
     Could read the intext but myself alone.

     The spelling has been modernized.

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.

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