Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - literary

adj. 1 of, constituting, or occupied with books or literature or written composition, esp. of the kind valued for quality of form. 2 well informed about literature. 3 (of a word or idiom) used chiefly in literary works or other formal writing. Phrases and idioms literary executor see EXECUTOR. literary history the history of the treatment of a subject in literature. Derivatives literarily adv. literariness n. Etymology: L litterarius (as LETTER)