textualist

[Eng. textual; -ist.] 2. That which is woven; a web; a fabric formed "Others, apart far in the gra y dale, Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave." Thomson: Spring , 643. 3. The manner of weaving, with respect either to form or matter; the disposition, arrangement, or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies interwoven. 4. The disposition of the several elementary constituent parts of any body in connection with each other; the manner in which the constituent parts of any body are disposed, arranged, or united. "While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of the same nature and texture now, with water and earth composed of entire particles in the beginning."-Newton. II. Technically : 1. Anat .: The particular arrangement of the elements of ti ues constituting any organ. It is used chiefly in describing the solid portions of the body, but is sometimes extended to the corpuscles of the blood, . 2. Petrol .: The state with regard to consolidation of the several rocks (see extract), and the arrange ment of their particles, as the "slaty texture." It refers to the arrangement of the parts of a rock on a smaller scale than the word structure. "The more compact, stony, and crystalline texture of the older as compared to the newer rocks." -Lyell : Princ. of Geol., ch. xii. *těx'-ture, v . t . [TEXTURE, 8.] To form a tex ture of or with; to interweave. *těx-tu-ry, s . [TEXTURE, 8.] The art or proce of weaving.