单词 | gazette |
释义 | gazetten. 1. a. A news-sheet; a periodical publication giving an account of current events. (Now historical.)The gazzetta was first published in Venice about the middle of the 16th cent., and similar news-sheets appeared in France and England in the 17th. The untrustworthy nature of their reports is often alluded to by writers of that period; thus Florio explains gazzette as ‘running reports, daily newes, idle intelligences, or flim flam tales that are daily written from Italie, namely from Rome and Venice’. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > other types of newspaper gazette1607 contemporary1670 packet1678 exchange1798 funny paper1837 blanket sheet1839 broadsheet1840 special1861 cocoa press1907 bladder1936 regional1958 electronic paper1967 free1982 1607 B. Jonson Volpone v. iv. sig. M3 O, I shall bee the fable of all feasts; The freight of the Gazetti . View more context for this quotation 1611 R. Richmond in T. Coryate Crudities sig. e2v For sure that Iew from Venice came, we finde it so recorded, In late Gazettas. 1623 Accident in Blacke Friers 15 Witnesse heauen and earth, &..those rediculous Italian Gazetts, that come from Rome, Millane, and Antwerp. 1625 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 234 Perchance you look not so low, as our ordinary Gazetta. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell iv. 52 The Gazets and Courants hee should do well to reade weekly. a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 211 I will not speake of Feats, High Stories, to out-rant our dull Gazetts. a1668 W. Davenant News from Plimouth iv, in Wks. (1673) 23/2 All's true I assure you. Can the Gazets lie? Or the Corants faile? 1682 J. Dryden Medall Epist. Whigs sig. A4v I am afraid it is not read so much as the Piece deserves, because the Bookseller is every week crying help at the end of his Gazette, to get it off. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 12 This universal passion for politics is gratified by Daily Gazettes. 1812 Ld. Byron Waltz vi She came..and with her certain sets Of true despatches, and as true gazettes. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1869) IV. xxi. 108/2 During a considerable time the unofficial gazettes, though much more garrulous and amusing than the official gazette, were scarcely less courtly. b. Of a person: A news-monger. (So French gazette.) ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > one who chats or gossips > one who spreads rumours ear-rounder?1387 tidings-makerc1440 runkera1500 rumourera1616 scatter-storya1670 gazette1703 quidnunc1709 anecdote-monger1761 what-now1890 yenta1923 1703 G. Farquhar Twin-rivals i. i. 2 For that reason I communicate: I know thou art a perfect Gazette, and will spread the News all over the Town. 2. a. spec. One of the three official journals entitled The London Gazette, The Edinburgh Gazette, and The Dublin Gazette, issued by authority twice a week, and containing lists of government appointments and promotions, names of bankrupts, and other public notices. Hence sometimes used gen. for the official journal of any government. to be in the gazette: to be published a bankrupt.The first official journal published in England was The Oxford Gazette, the first number of which appeared in Nov. 1665, when the Court was at Oxford on account of the plague. Nos. 22 and 23 were printed in London, and with No. 24 the title was changed to The London Gazette. The Edinburgh Gazette was first issued in 1690, The Dublin Gazette in 1705. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > official gazettes gazette1665 hue and cry1827 Birthday Gazette1869 1665 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 49 In this month [sc. Oct. or Nov.] gazets were first published at Oxon. 1685 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 324 There is a reward of 100l. published in the Gazet for any one that shal apprehend the said col. Danvers. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 114 And you hear no more of our Goldsmith, till you find him in a Gazette, torn to pieces by a Statute of Bankrupt. 1764 S. Foote Lyar i. ii. 19 I'll undertake to do more business by the single aid of the London Gazette, than by all..that the whole race of rhymers have ever produc'd. 1805 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) III. 617 I do not augur any thing unfavourable to your promotion, because it is not confirmed by the last gazettes. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xlvi. 24 Our trifling bankruptcies in the Gazette. 1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle Concl. 299 The great firm of Catchflat and Company figured in the Gazette, and paid sixpence in the pound. 1855 A. Wynter Curiosities of Civilisation Advts. 15 The London Gazette..is the only paper still in existence that had its root in those days. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 48 He sometimes goes into the ‘Gazette’, paying but an infinitesimal dividend in the pound. 1897 Daily News 16 Oct. 3/1 Last night's ‘Gazette’ contains the formal order that the city of Canterbury shall..be the place where assizes are holden for the County of Kent. b. A report in an official gazette. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > report > issued by authority bulletin1791 gazette1801 1801 Syd. Smith in Lady Holland Life (1855) I. 50 If we were to read the gazette of a naval victory from the pulpit, we should be dazzled with the eager eyes of our audience. Compounds C1. gazette-writer n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] gazetteer1611 newsmaker1648 diurnalist1649 diurnaller1661 gazette-writera1678 journalist1693 journalier1714 couranteer1733 magazine-writer1787 diarian1800 hack1803 pressman1818 print journalist1965 journo1967 newsperson1973 Bigfoot1980 a1678 A. Marvell Tom May's Death in Misc. Poems (1681) 36 Must therefore all the World be set on flame, Because a Gazet writer mist his aim? 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour ii. i. 13 This rascally Gazette-writer never so much as once mention'd me. 1807 Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 241/2 Another appointment made by the late administration was, that of gazette-writer created by patent for Scotland with a salary of £300 per annum. C2. ΚΠ 1702 D. Defoe Reformation of Manners 670 All men would say the Picture was thy own, No Gazet Marks were half so quickly known. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gazettev. transitive. To publish in a gazette. Chiefly passive to be gazetted: to be the subject of an announcement in the official gazette; to be named in the gazette as appointed to a command, etc.; also, in early use, to be mentioned or discussed in the newspapers. to be gazetted out: said of an officer whose resignation is announced in the gazette. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > appearance in the press > appear in newspaper or journal [verb (intransitive)] to be gazetted1678 to make (the) headlines1903 to hit the headlines1939 to make the front page(s)1939 to make the news(papers)1983 1678 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery in Wks. (1875) IV. 406 The Parliament being grown to that height of contempt, as to be gazetted among runaway servants, lost dogs, strayed horses, and highway robbers. 1748 H. Walpole Corr. (1837) II. cxcvii. 250 Mr. Villiers, you know, has been much gazetted, and had his letters to the King of Prussia printed. 1813 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 69 Received official information that I was gazetted out. 1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin I. vi. 54 And very shortly afterwards, Percy Godolphin was gazetted as a cornet in the —— Life Guards. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. ix. 148 During this winter Mr. Esmond was gazetted to a lieutenantcy in Brigadier Webb's regiment of Fusileers. 1885 Law Times 79 173/2 K.'s retirement was gazetted on the evening of the 18th Dec. 1897 Daily News 4 Mar. 7/1 The fees charged are on a uniform scale, settled and gazetted by the Government Department of Labour. Derivatives gaˈzetted adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > appearance in the press > [adjective] > mentioned in newspapers gazetted1808 leadered1884 paragraphed1893 1808 T. Moore Corruption & Intolerance 4 That courtly ear, Which..hears no news but W–rd's gazetted lies. 1891 Daily News 4 Nov. 5/5 By a Resolution published in the ‘Calcutta Gazette’..The skin and skull of each tiger..‘should be retained until the arrival of a gazetted officer of the Sunderbuns Forest Department’. gaˈzetting n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > publishing > [noun] > publishing in official gazette gazetting1852 1852 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. II. 159 After the Gazetting, another advertisement was substituted. 1856 Ld. Houghton Let. 22 Sept. in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) II. xii. 13 I do not know why Labouchere delays the gazetting of your knighthood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1607v.1678 |
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