单词 | gazetteer |
释义 | gazetteern. 1. a. One who writes in a gazette; a journalist, a retailer of news. (Now historical.) 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 1611 J. Donne in T. Coryate Crudities sig. d3 Mount now to Gallo-belgicus; Appeare As deepe a States-man, as a Gazettier [1650 Poems p. 262 Garretteir]. 1653 G. Webbe Pract. Quietnes xxvi. 249 Such Makebates, idle Garitiers [? read Gazitiers], and tatling News-carriers, are very rife every where in the world. 1664 J. Evelyn Let. 31 Oct. in Diary & Corr. (1859) III. 144 He styles himself Historiograph du Roy, the mighty meed of the commonest Gazetteer, as that of Conseiller du Roy is of every trifling pettifoger. 1671 A. Marvell Let. 9 Aug. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 324 I address myself, which is all I am good for, to be your Gazettier. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. Let. i The flimsy reveries of an ignorant gazetteer. 1817 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 26 Nov. (1884) I Those who go out do not call upon me, so that I am but a bad gazetteer. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. vi. 460 Gazetteers, who would earn their wages..had to watch with all eagerness the movements of King August. b. A journalist appointed and paid by Government. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > writer of official gazette gazettist1625 gazetteer1711 1711 J. Swift Let. 8 Nov. in Wks. (1762) XIV. 70 I have got poor Dr. King who was some time in Ireland, to be Gazetteer, which will be worth 250l. per annum to him. 1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight 6 No Gazetteer more innocent than I. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Gazetteer... It was lately a term of the utmost infamy, being usually applied to wretches who were hired to vindicate the court. 1843 T. B. Macaulay Addison in Ess. (1887) 792 Steele had been appointed Gazetteer by Sunderland. 1884 W. J. Courthope Addison v. 85 The office of Gazetteer became henceforth a regular ministerial appointment. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] intelligencer1598 courant1621 coranto1624 paper1642 mercury1643 newsletter1665 newspaper1667 slip1688 raga1734 news1738 gazetteer1742 sheet1754 news sheet1841 spread1848 linen-draper1857 newsprint1897 blat1932 linen1955 mimeo newspaper1973 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. xvii. 307 ‘Gazetteers,’ answered Adams; ‘What is that?’ ‘It is a dirty News-Paper,’ replied the Host. View more context for this quotation 1744 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons (new ed.) 155 Glasses and Bottles, Pipes and Gazetteers. 1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 3 They have drawled through columns of Gazetteers and Advertisers for a century together. 3. A geographical index or dictionary.A work of this kind, by L. Echard (ed. 2, 1693), bore the title ‘The Gazetteer's: or, Newsman's Interpreter: Being A Geographical Index’. ‘The Title’, he says, ‘was given me by a very eminent Person, whom I forbear to name’ (Pref. p. 1). In Part ii, published in 1704, the author refers to the book as ‘the Gazetteer’ simply (see quot.). ΚΠ 1704 L. Echard Gazetteer's or Newsman's Interpreter (ed. 7) ii. Pref. The kind Reception the Gazetteer has met with in the World..[has] induced us to go on with a second Part. 1751 (title) England's Gazetteer, and accurate Description of all the Towns, Cities, Villages, &c. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. Introd. p. xvii Scotland has five Universities..of which an account will be found in the Gazetteer. 1853 (title) Dictionary of Geography, forming a complete Gazetteer of the world. 1875 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1876) 2nd Ser. 137 The ‘Polyolbion’ is nothing less than a versified gazetteer of England and Wales. Derivatives gazeˈtteer v. (transitive) to describe geographically in gazetteers. ΚΠ 1890 Chambers's Encycl. V. 120 Few countries, if any, are more thoroughly gazetteered than France. gazeˈtteerage n. the class of gazette-writers. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > collectively press gang1832 the fourth estate1837 gazetteerage1865 press1868 meeja1983 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. vi. 576 [He] saw..the general Gazetteerage everywhere, seized of this affair, and thrown into paroxysms at the size and complexion of it. gazeˈtteering n. the making of gazetteers. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > [noun] > making of gazetteers gazetteering1875 1875 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1876) 2nd Ser. 137 Neither of them [Drayton and Daniel] could make poetry coalesce with gazetteering or chronicle-making. gazeˈtteering adj. that writes in gazettes. ΚΠ 1799 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1800) 3 152 You and your partner, and gazetteering brother chip, are all of the same block. gazeˈtteerish adj. resembling the style of a gazetteer. ΚΠ 1891 Rev. of Reviews Jan. 77/2 A brief paper on ‘Armour for Warships’, which is somewhat gazetteerish and historical. gazeˈtteership n. the position of official gazetteer. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > writer of official gazette > position of gazetteership1860 1860 A. L. Windsor Ethica v. 221 An unlucky paper in his ‘Tatler’ lost Steele his gazetteership. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1611 |
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