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▪ I. pamphlet, n.|ˈpæmflɪt|
Forms: [4 panfletus], 4–7 pamflet, (6 pamflete, -flett(e, 5 pamfilet, pampelet, paunflet, plaun-); 6– pamphlet, (6 pamphelet, 7 -lett(e), pamphlete, -lette, pampfelette.
[Appears in 14th c. in Anglo-Latin (panfletus), English (pamflet, 15th c. pamfilet, paunflet); app. a generalized use of Pamphilet or Panflet, a familiar name of the 12th c. Latin amatory poem or comedy called Pamphilus, seu de Amore (in OF. Pamphilet, MDu. Panflet), a highly popular opuscule in the 13th c. Cf. the familiar appellations of other small works similarly formed with dim. -et, e.g. Catonet the Distichs of (pseudo-) Cato, Esopet, the Fables of æsop, etc. (See note below.) Hence in 17–18th c. adopted in French and other langs.]
1. A small treatise occupying fewer pages or sheets than would make a book, composed and (a) written, or (b) (since c 1500) printed, and issued as a separate work; always (at least in later use) unbound, with or without paper covers.
In a general sense used irrespective of subject (applied e.g. in 1495, to a codicil to a will, of only about 170 words), and in 17th c. including issues of single plays, romances, poems, novelettes, newspapers, news-letters, and other periodicals; still sometimes applied to chap-books, and the like; but not now usually to anything of purely literary character, or of religious nature, even though issued ‘in pamphlet form’.
(a) [1344R. de Bury Philobiblon viii, Sed revera libros non libras maluimus, codicesque plus dileximus quam florenos, ac panfletos exiguos incrassatis prætulimus palefridis.] 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love iii. ix. (Skeat) I. 54 Christe..graunte of thy goodnes to euery maner reder, full vnder⁓standing in this leud pamflet to haue. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2060 Þogh þat þis pamfilet Non ordre holdë, ne in him include. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 180 My purpose, Out of the Frenssh a tale to translate, Whiche in a paunflet I redde and saw but late. 1490Caxton Eneydos Prol. 3 Sittyng in my studye where as laye many dyuerse paunflettis and bookys. 1495Test. Ebor. IV. 26 And this pampelet I will stand as parcell of my forsaid will.
(b)1496Fysshynge with Angle (1883) 37 That this present treatyse sholde not come to the hondys of eche ydle persone whyche wolde desire it, yf it were enpryntyd allone by itself & put in a lytyll plaunflet, therfore I haue compylyd it in a greter volume of dyuerse bokys. 1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 1191 And of Soueraynte a noble pamphelet. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. V 2 As I my selfe that wrote this pamphlet [Chronicle of Edw. V] truly knewe. 1552R. Ascham Let. to Astely Wks. (1761) 5 Syr Thomas More in that pamphlet of Richard the thyrd, doth in..these pointes so content all men. 1559Mirr. Mag. (1563) H viij, I have recounted thus much..which if it should haue bene spoken in hys tragedye would rather haue made a volume than a Pamphlete. 1577R. Willes Eden's Decades Epist. 7 R. Eden..translated..some other prety pamflettes concernyng the Spanyardes and Portugalles voiages. 1582Stanyhurst æneis (Arb.) Ded. 4 Askam,..in his goulden pamphlet, intituled thee Schoolemayster. 1623Gouge Serm. Extent God's Provid. Ded., In regard of the smalnesse of it, it [this Sermon] is indeed but as a little Pamphlet. 1681Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 119 The publisher of the Observator, Heraclitus Ridens, and the Loyall Protestant domestick Intelligence (three pamphlets that come out weekly). 1778Johnson 25 Apr. in Boswell, A few sheets of poetry unbound are a pamphlet as much as a few sheets of prose.
2. More specifically, a treatise of the size and form above described on some subject or question of current or temporary interest, personal, social, political, ecclesiastical, or controversial, on which the writer desires to appeal to the public.
This is merely a consequential specialization, arising from the fact that works of this kind are those for which the pamphlet form is now mainly employed.
1592G. Harvey 3rd Lett. in Shaks. Allusion Bks. i. (1874) 149 Were it not more for other,..I would be the first, that should cancell this impertinent Pamflet. 1606Chapman Gentleman Usher Plays 1873 I. 294 Some words, pickt out of Proclamations Or great mens Speeches; or well-selling Pamphlets. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. i. Wks. (1851) 99 These wretched projectors of ours that bescraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church. 1683Crowne City Politiques iv. i, As paper in Holland passes for money, Pamphlets with us pass for religion and policy. 1714Swift Pres. St. Affairs Wks. 1755 II. i. 203 Systems that..are supplies for pamphlets in the present age, and may probably furnish materials for memoirs and histories in the next. 1791Mackintosh Vind. Gallicæ Wks. 1846 III. 20 Pamphlet succeeded pamphlet, surpassing each other in boldness and elevation. 1792Burke Corr. (1844) III. 428 Grattan's incomparable speech..ought to make a little separate pamphlet. 1824J. Johnson Typogr. II. xiv. 490 When pamphlets and other works of temporary and urgent nature are required. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 687 The age of Charles the First may be characterised as the age of pamphlets. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §5 The brief form of these novelettes soon led to the appearance of the ‘pamphlet’; and a new world of readers was seen in the rapidity with which the stories or scurrilous libels which passed under this name were issued.
3. attrib. and Comb.
a. attrib.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 34 We are to cast a wary eye on those diminutive, and pamphlet Treaties dayly published among us. 1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 4 Tracts..often since publish'd separately, in Pamphlet-Forms, as well as mostly upon Pamphlet-Subjects. 1730Fielding Author's Farce iii. i, The scribbler in a pamphlet war. 1899Daily News 13 June 8/3 An Introductory Letter..which occupies sixty-nine pages, and is in pamphlet form, and pamphlet spirit.
b. Comb., as pamphlet-book, pamphlet-history, pamphlet-octavo, pamphlet-shop, pamphlet-stall, pamphlet-title, pamphlet-writer, pamphlet-writing; pamphlet-sized adj.; pamphlet-wise adv.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 86 Spending about six Years more in composing such *Pamphlet-Books.
1715Ibid. I. 5 The first Treatise..publish'd..at Milan, 1607, in a small *Pamphlet-Octavo.
1750Let. to A. Johnson 3 Nor have I omitted to call at every skulking *Pamphlet-shop. 1778F. Burney Evelina (1791) II. xxv. 153 Mrs. Selwyn had business at a pamphlet-shop.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 1 Several *Pamphlet-siz'd Writings.
c1720Ibid. VI. Conclus. Diss. Physick 32 He deals chiefly..with the Librarians of Morefields, *Pamphlet-stawls of old Books, and poor Ushers and Head-Form-Boys.
1613Beaum. & Fl. Honest Man's Fort. iii. ii, Have copies of it posted on posts, Like *pamphlet-titles, that sue to be sold.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 30 Some of King Henry the 8th's, and Queen Anne Bolen's reciprocal Letters, were printed *Pamphlet-wise, about two or three Years ago.
1735Bolingbroke On Parties Ded. 28 To follow the generous and equitable Advice of the *Pamphlet-writer.
1751Pope's Dunciad ii. 314 note, Not a Pension at Court, nor Preferment in the Church,..was bestowed on any man distinguished for his Learning separately from Party merit, or *Pamphlet writing.
Hence (nonce-wds.) ˈpamphletage, the aggregate of pamphlets, pamphlets collectively; pamphleˈtette, a small pamphlet; ˈpamphletful, as much as a pamphlet will contain; pamˈphletic, -ical adjs., pertaining to or of the nature of a pamphlet; ˈpamphletism, an expression or manner of speech characteristic of pamphlets; ˈpamphletize v., intr. to write a pamphlet or pamphlets; trans. to write a pamphlet upon; ˈpamphletless a., without a pamphlet.
1896A. Lang in Longm. Mag. July 110 The *pamphletage of the subject must be vast.
1882Russell Hesperothen I. 64 In a small *pamphletette from Robinson's ‘Epitome..’, there is a very pleasant account of some of the treasures.
1876N. Amer. Rev. CXXIII. 426 It included in ten words a *pamphletful of political insight.
1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 8 Expressing the *Pamphletick Character, and the Pseudonymous Inconsiderableness of those Libelling Insults. Ibid. 10 Of the same Pamphletick genuineness is St. Barnaby's Epistle.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. viii. 122 Severall Editions of some small *Pamphleticall labors of his.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. To Rdr. 4 Those Libel-Granado's and Dragooning *Pamphletisms.
1652Gaule Magastrom. To Rdrs., Books of late..crowded in amongst us (some in their *pampheletizing edition, some in their voluminous translation). 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 21 Our Irish preacher..did not intend to preach, but merely to pamphletize. 1837Marryat in New Monthly Mag. LI. 175 Martin..has obtained a great celebrity in France... He is lithographed, pamphletized [etc.].
a1845Syd. Smith Sir G. C. Lewis in Hades, For ever and ever bookless, essayless, *pamphletless, grammarless. [Note. The amatory poem of Pamphilus appears as Panflet in the Middle Dutch Floris & Blaunchefleur of Diderik van Assenede (c 1250) I. 333, where it is said of the hero and heroine ‘Ende men se oec te lesene sette In Juvenale ende in Panflette, Ende in Ovidio de Arte Amandi’ (And they were set also to read In Juvenal and in Panflet, And in Ovid on the Art of Loving). In French, Pamphilet appears in the inventory of the Library of the Louvre (Chas. V, and Chas. VI) dispersed by John, Duke of Bedford (L. Delisle Cabinet des Manuscrits III. 160). As to its popularity, the students of the University of Paris were rebuked because they preferred this erotic production to more edifying reading. Pamphilus was also well known in England, and is twice quoted or referred to by Chaucer; also by Gower Mirour 14449 (where see Editor's note). To connect the work with our ‘pamphlet’, we have to suppose that here also, as in France and the Low Countries, it was familiarly termed Pamphilet or Panflet, and that this name was in course of time extended to other opuscula produced or circulated ‘in pamphlet form’, i.e. as small detached works. This transference of sense must have been complete before 1340, when the name was applied in Philobiblon to what were evidently serious treatises, and before Thomas Usk, Hoccleve, and Lydgate applied it to single works of their own.] ▪ II. ˈpamphlet, v. ? Obs.
[f. prec. n.]
a. intr. To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.
b. trans. To report or describe in a pamphlet. Chiefly in ˈpamphleting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1592G. Harvey Four Lett. ii, Who like Elderton for Ballating: Greene for pamphletting: both, for goodfellow⁓ship, and bad conditions? 1592Nashe P. Penilesse Ep. to Printer, To the Ghost of Robert Greene, telling him, what a coyle there is with pamphleting on him after his death. 1613Jackson Creed ii. xix. §11. 370 A common place trodden almost bare by the English pamphleting Papist. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 42 This Discourse being Pamphleted about, to Court, City, and Country. Ibid. 217 He bravely underwent above fourteen several Tryals and Examinations,..besides many other Conferences, which were not written or pamphleted. |