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- verb To
illustrate abook withpictures taken frompublished sources, such as byclipping them out for one's own use.
Etymologies
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granger + -ise, after James Granger, a 19th century English biographer.
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yarb commented on the word grangerise
"He was a large, loose, fattish man with unintelligent brown eyes magnified by spectacles; he wore an ill-fitting frock-coat and a paper collar, and he showed me, as his great treasure and interest, a large Bible which he had grangerised with photographs of pictures."
- Wells, Tono Bungay
(I'm not sure if it ought to be "photographs or pictures" instead, but I'm going from the version at gutenberb.org)
December 3, 2012
Prolagus commented on the word grangerise
See also grangerize. Or if you prefer, you can try gangerhize.
December 4, 2012
alexz commented on the word grangerise
Royal Society video on their early Grangerised books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU-3uSORaZQ
an original reference book would have articles and pictures cut from older books and pasted into a new Grangerised book which is now larger in size.
May 3, 2016
Gammerstang commented on the word grangerise
(verb) - Grangerisation is the addition of all sorts of things directly and indirectly bearing on the book in question, illustrating it, connected with it or its author, or even the author's family . . . It includes autograph letters, caricatures, prints, broadsheets, biographical sketches, anecdotes, scandals, press notices, parallel passages, and any other sort of matter which can be got together . . . for the matter in hand. The word is from Rev. James Granger.
--Ebenezer Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898
January 16, 2018