grangerize
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grangerize
- /ˈɡɹeɪnʒəɹaɪz/
Where it comes from
From Granger + -ize, after James Granger, an 18th-century English biographer. Granger's Biographical History of England (1769) included areas for readers to illustrate the pages.
verb grangerizes · grangerizing · grangerized · grangerise
- To illustrate (a book) with material such as images taken from other published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
- To illustrate with material taken from published sources. He was a large, loose, fattish man with unintelligent brown eyes magnified by spectacles; he wore an ill-fitting frock-coat and a paper collar, and he showed me, as his great treasure and interest, a large Bible which he had grangerised with photographs of pictures.
- To remove material, especially images, from a publication. In fifty cases out of a hundred, booksellers who make grangerizing a speciality find it pays far better to break up an illustrated book than to sell it intact.
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