Adjective
Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as, textual criticism; a textual reading.
Serving for, or depending on, texts.
Familiar with texts or authorities so as to cite them accurately.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells. Richard Dawkins
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush. David Foster Wallace
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible. Alexander Kluge
By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects. Norman McLaren
Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in the technical sense of that word, as an immediately available and reusable memory bank. Patrice Pavis
To be sure, these witnesses provide an excellent illustration of textual dynamics, and they deepen our knowledge of the development of the Bible text in the technical sense. Moshe Goshen-Gottstein