单词 | bookhood |
释义 | bookhoodn.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [noun] > book-learning, letters craftOE book loreOE lettersa1250 letter1340 lettrurec1400 literaturec1450 reading?1548 book learning1553 book skill1553 book knowledge1613 bookcrafta1637 scholarship1644 clerkship1648 letter-learning1668 bookhood1772 clerk-learning1865 literacy1880 1772 H. Walpole Corr. (1837) III. 46 Who has a better opinion of my bookhood than I deserve. 2. Publication in book form; the state or condition of being a book. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > [noun] > condition of being bookhood1854 1854 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 272 A young poet of England, just emerging from the newspaper state of pupillage into bookhood. 1881 Southern Law Rev. (St. Louis) VII. 289 This book dares to assert its bookhood independent of dress. 1902 Metallographist Jan. 55 We tear the covers off a book and it remains a book..because bookhood is not essentially dependent upon external form. 2009 J. Fisher & A. Shay When Men Dance p. viii We offer thanks..for the intelligent and gracious shepherding of this manuscript into bookhood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1772 |
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