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† viˈsorum Obs.
[For visorium (so in F.), aphetic for divisorium (so in G.), a special use of med.L. divisorium a dividing thing or part.]
A device formerly used by compositors while setting up, to indicate the line on the copy.
1659C. Hoole tr. Comenius' Vis. World (1672) 190 The Compositor..(according to the Copy, which he hath fastened before him in a Visorum) composeth words in a composing-stick. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxii. ⁋4. 212 Some Compositers use Visorums,..pricking the point of the Visorum..upon the Border or Frame of the Case. 1770Luckombe Hist. Printing 383 When our Copy is very wide we use a Divisorium (commonly called Visorum), we chuse to move it each time downwards, to compose what by that means appears from under the Visorum. |