Literary notes about Marginal (AI summary)
The term "marginal" is used in literature with a wide range of implications, from denoting physical elements on a page to describing something that is peripheral or of limited significance. In manuscript contexts, it often refers to annotations or glosses that scribes add in the blank spaces surrounding the main text—as seen in instances where marginal errata or notes are interwoven with the central narrative ([1], [2], [3]). In scientific and technical writings, "marginal" can describe specific physical attributes or slight variations, such as marginal spines or the marginal shelf of a geological formation ([4], [5]). Furthermore, in economic or evaluative contexts, the descriptor emphasizes minimal differences in cost or impact, illustrating its adaptability in language ([6], [7]).
- His marginal errata prove that his work was being printed as he wrote it, or furnished copy therefor—namely in installments.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius - Fac-simile of a portion of the page of Giustiniani Psalter, which shows the beginning of the marginal note on Columbus.
— from Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 2 (of 8) Spanish Explorations and Settlements in America from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century - Most of these books were filled with marginal notes, written with a pencil, in Italian and Latin.
— from The Vampyre; a Tale by John William Polidori - Marginal spines fifty to sixty, cylindro-conical, flexuose, very variable in size, the largest nearly as long as the diameter of the disk.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia)Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel - The last traces of the marginal plateau merge with the continental slope of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.
— from The Floors of the Ocean: 1. The North AtlanticText to accompany the physiographic diagram of the North Atlantic by Bruce C. Heezen - The benefits of using a faster modem may be marginal under the following conditions: *
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - This Rendall was a wholesale dealer, very rich and large in all His habits, though he always said his profits were but marginal.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 by Various
