Both Uses of
marginal
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- , was carelessly listening to a man of fifty or fifty-two years of age, with gray hair, aristocratic bearing, and exceedingly gentlemanly attire, and meanwhile making a marginal note in a volume of Gryphius's rather inaccurate, but much sought-after, edition of Horace—a work which was much indebted to the sagacious observations of the philosophical monarch.†
Chpt 9-10
- There he found everything arranged in due order,—the accusation, examination, Morrel's petition, M. de Villefort's marginal notes.†
Chpt 27-28 *
Definition:
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(marginal) small in effect or amount; or at the edge or borderThe exact meaning of marginal depends upon its context. For example:
- "marginal improvement" -- small in quantity
- "marginal capability" -- small in effect
- "a marginal employee" -- barely adequate
- "marginal tax rate" -- at the edge or border