ferulary
Etymology
From ferule + -ary.
ferulary means characteristic of a schoolmaster, schoolmasterish. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
adj
- Characteristic of a schoolmaster, schoolmasterish.“Even academic translators of Jonson’s era like Barten Holyday (Persins, 1616) were not literalists. Holyday tells us that he freed himself from “ferulary [‘schoolmasterish’] supersitition to the letter” and took “the ancient libertie of a Translator [to use] a moderate paraphrase, where the obscurities did more require it.””