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单词 minerva press
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Minerva pressn.adj.

Brit. /mᵻˌnəːvə ˈprɛs/, U.S. /məˌnərvə ˈprɛs/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly from a proper name. Partly formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: proper name Minerva Press ; Minerva n., press n.1
Etymology: In sense 1 < Minerva Press, the name of a printing press established by William Lane (c1745–1814) in 1790 in Leadenhall Street, London (see below) < Minerva n. + press n.1 In sense 2 independently < Minerva n. (compare sense 4 at that entry) + press n.1; compare Minerva machine n. at Minerva n. Compounds.For early references to the press, compare:1791 (title) Hermione, or the Orphan Sisters. A Novel... London: Printed for William Lane, at the Minerva, Leadenhall-Street.1799 C. T. Smith What is She? ii. i. 14 Ah, Lady Zephyrine, my nerves were very robust then; but poetry, and the Minerva press, refine the nervous system.1820 T. Moore Jrnl. 27 Oct. in Mem. (1853) III. 162 The infinite number of clumsy things in them [sc. Scottish Novels], common-place contrivances, worthy only of the Minerva press.1828 T. Carlyle Goethe in Foreign Rev. 2 104 Meister was ranked..among the legal coin of the Minerva Press.
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.].
2. Printing. = cropper n.4 Obsolete. rare.
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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).
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n.adj.1843
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