单词 | minerva press |
释义 | Minerva pressn.adj. Now historical. 1. attributive. Designating writing, etc., typical of or resembling that of the series of light romantic novels issued with the imprint of the Minerva Press from c1790, characterized by a blend of sentiment and sensationalism. Also (occasionally) as adj. in predicative use (see quot. 1850). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > publishing > publisher > [noun] > publisher of specific material anecdotographer1686 anecdotariana1734 tractarian1824 Minerva press1843 music house1854 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [adjective] > types of novel picaresque1822 Gothic1825 Minerva press1843 yellow1843 western1846 bluggy1876 cape and sword (also cape and cloak)1898 Mills & Boon1912 straight1936 blockbusting1943 Mills and Boony1946 private eye1946 police procedural1957 thrillerish1957 porno-Gothic1968 romantic1977 neo-noir1986 bonkbusting1993 1843 E. S. Wortley Moonshine ii. i. 35 Lady G. The whole nation, he said, appeared inspired with one glowing ambition, and, like the young of eagles, soars struggling upwards ever to the sun. Lady C. Rhodomontade and Minerva press raptures! 1850 Athenæum 7 Dec. 1274/1 The relief provided for the Begum [in Pendennis]..is Minerva Press every grain of it. 1878 Fortn. Rev. May 702 There is some delicacy..mixed with much fine writing and superfine sentiment of the Minerva Press school in Lord Beaconsfield's heroines. 1979 19th-cent. Fiction 34 239 The Gothic novel..takes the society by storm in the works of Walpole, Radcliffe, and Lewis, begins to degenerate into Minerva Press fiction, [etc.]. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > platen platen printing machine1848 platen machine1849 cropper?1881 Minerva1883 Minerva machine1888 Minerva press1888 Miehle1902 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 705 at Typography Fig. 11 Minerva Press. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1843 |
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