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editorial, a. and n.|ɛdɪˈtɔərɪəl|
[f. editor n. + -ial.]
A. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to an editor; proper to, or characteristic of, an editor.
1744Akenside Let. in Poems (1845) 30 He has intirely dedicated himself to..editorial criticism. 1794Parr in Brit. Critic Feb. (T.), Lambin..and Heyne also..seem to have considered it as part of their editorial duty, etc. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. iv. (1872) 117 In spite of editorial prophecy. 1837Dickens Pickw. (1847) 234/2 Bless our editorial heart.
b. spec. Written, or ostensibly written, by the editor of a newspaper, as distinct from news items.
1802Deb. Congress U.S. 25 Feb. (1851) 796 The editorial part of the paper..was supposed to come from the pen of Mr. Hobby. 1816Niles' Weekly Register X. Index, Editorial articles. 1849Knickerbocker XXXIV. 9 We shall set forth in this editorial leader, that our friends may know exactly where we are. 1877Harper's Mag. Dec. 109/1 [He] thoroughly worked an idea into an editorial leader. 1920P. C. Bing Country Weekly 145 [They minimized] the importance of the editorial page.
c. editorial we [we pron. 2], the pronoun we used by a single person to denote himself, as in an editorial.
1841Dickens Let. 24 Aug. (1969) II. 368 Every rotten-hearted pander who..struts it in the Editorial We once a week. 1888Kipling Phantom 'Rickshaw (1890) 137 Under special patronage of the editorial We. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. ix. 204 Such ‘editorial we's’ must be shifted to ‘I’ if they are to be intelligible in some languages. 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Ling. vii. 287 A different anomaly in relation to number in pronouns is seen in what is often called the ‘editorial we’.
B. n. A newspaper article written by, or under the responsibility of, the editor; a ‘leader’.
1830Collegian (Cambridge, Mass.) 44 The great green table in the centre groaning under the weight of editorials, and friendly correspondence. 1864Spectator 539 Mr. Bennett..thinks that ‘an editorial’ is the highest style of composition known. 1866Mrs. Stowe Lit. Foxes 14 To set up the editorial of a morning paper. 1883Harper's Mag. Mar. 601/1 The Daily Proteus sent Jack twenty dollars..for two editorials. 1887Pall Mall G. 15 Oct. 12/1 Finely worded editorials.
Hence ediˈtorially adv., in an editorial manner or capacity; as an editor does. † ediˈtorialship = editorship.
1818Blackw. Mag. III. 142 You are editorially exonerated. 1826J. Gilchrist Lecture 34 During his Editorialship he must have been a kind of Consul or Dictator in the Republic of Letters. 1883Harper's Mag. Oct. 789/2 She wrote editorially for a London paper. 1885Manch. Exam. 14 Apr. 8/6 The anticipations which..you ventured editorially to give expression to. |