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mimeograph, n.|ˈmɪmiːəʊgrɑːf, -græf|
[irreg. f. Gr. µῑµέοµαι ‘I imitate’ + -graph.]
A duplicating machine for producing copies from a stencil; also attrib.
From 1903 to 1948 a proprietary name.
1889Voice (N.Y.) 19 Sept., The ‘mimeograph’ and the ‘autocopyist’..will give any number of copies of a letter. 1903T.P.'s Weekly 6 Nov. 720/1 A typewriter who could multiply for him copies of these stories on the mimeograph. 1914[see duplicating vbl. n.]. 1935M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer xviii. 160 Miss Marsh ran off on the mimeograph sheets of instructions all neatly tabulated. 1952S. Kauffmann Philanderer (1953) v. 84 The mimeograph ink of the mail-room. 1963F. C. Archer Gen. Office Pract. (ed. 2) xvii. 233 Mimeograph paper comes in a variety of colors to contrast or to harmonize with the ink. 1967Karch & Buber Offset Processes iv. 72 Letter shops, once using mimeograph-type equipment, added the offset process..to expand..their production.
Hence ˈmimeograph v. trans., to reproduce by means of a mimeograph; ˈmimeographed ppl. a.
1895M. E. Bamford in Chicago Advance 6 June 1290/2 The copies were mimeographed at last, thanks to her mother's help. 1903Miss Faithfull W. Lond. Typewr. Off. Circular, Terms for mimeographing. Mimeographed Circulars can be sent by the ½d. post. 1912J. C. Dana Mod. Amer. Library Econ. v. 6 Mimeographed copies of tests for books and printed forms for book notes are to be distributed when needed. 1937M. L. Hanley Word Index to Joyce's Ulysses p. xii, Mimeographing: Dan Marlow. 1946R.A.F. Jrnl. May 152 The Bulletin..was an unpretentious affair of a few mimeographed sheets. 1949Shurr & Yocom Mod. Dance 3 Would you consider mimeographing this material? 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVII. 23 Choices were to be indicated on a mimeographed answer form. |