grangerizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Granger +‎ -ize, after James Granger, an 18th-century English biographer. Granger's Biographical History of England (1769) included areas for readers to illustrate the pages.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪnʒəɹaɪz/

動詞

grangerize (三人称単数 現在形 grangerizes, 現在分詞 grangerizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 grangerized)

1. (intransitive) To illustrate (a book) with material such as images taken from other published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
2. (transitive) To illustrate with material taken from published sources.
3. (transitive) To remove material, especially images, from a publication.
   • 1895, William Roberts, The book-hunter in London: historical and other studies of collectors and collecting. With numerous portraits and illustrations:

     In fifty cases out of a hundred, booksellers who make grangerizing a speciality find it pays far better to break up an illustrated book than to sell it intact.

   • 1986, American book collector, volume 7:

     In more recent years many finely illustrated books (such as Audubon's The Birds of America かつ Bartolozzi's fine engravings of Holbein's portraits), together with books of many modern artists, have been grangerized for their individual prints.