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▪ I. gazette, n.|gəˈzɛt|
Forms: 7 gazetta, gasetta (pl. gazetti, gazettaes), 7–8 gazet(t, (7 gaziette), 8 gazzette, 7– gazette.
[a. F. gazette, ad. It. gazzetta, pl. gazzette (whence the earliest forms in English), app. so called from the coin of that name (see gazet), which may have been the sum paid either for the paper itself or for the privilege of reading it; but a derivation from gazzetta, dim. of gazza magpie, is not impossible.
In late 17th and early 18th c., the word came to be accented on the first syllable, and it is so marked by Johnson. Cowper (Table Talk 37) again accents it in the original fashion.]
1. A news-sheet; a periodical publication giving an account of current events. (Now only Hist.)
The gazzetta was first published in Venice about the middle of the 16th c., and similar news-sheets appeared in France and England in the 17th. The untrustworthy nature of their reports is often alluded to by writers of that period; thus Florio explains gazzette as ‘running reports, daily newes, idle intelligences, or flim flam tales that are daily written from Italie, namely from Rome and Venice’.
1605B. Jonson Volpone v. iv. (1607) M 3, O, I shall bee the fable of all feasts; The freight of the Gazetti. 1611R. Richmond Panegyr. Verses, in Coryat Crudities e 2 b, For sure that Iew from Venice came, we finde it so recorded, In late Gazettas. 1623Accident in Blacke Friers 15 Witnesse heauen and earth, &..those rediculous Italian Gazetts, that come from Rome, Millane, and Antwerp. a1639Donne Lett. (1651) 234 Perchance you look not so low as our ordinary Gazetta. 1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 27 The Gazets and Courants hee should do well to reade weekly. 1646–8G. Daniel Poems Wks. 1878 I. 211, I will not speake of Feats, High Stories, to out-rant our dull Gazetts. a1668Davenant News fr. Plymouth iv. Dram. Wks. 1873 IV. 171 All's true, I assure you. Can the gazets lie? Or the courants fail? 1682Dryden Medal, Ep. Whigs A 4 b, I am afraid it is not read so much as the Piece deserves, because the Bookseller is every week crying help at the end of his Gazette, to get it off. 1762Goldsm. Cit. W. iv, This universal passion for politics is gratified by daily gazettes. 1812Byron Waltz vi, She came..and with her certain sets Of true despatches, and as true gazettes. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. (1869) IV. 108/2 During a considerable time the unofficial gazettes, though much more garrulous and amusing than the official gazette, were scarcely less courtly.
b. Of a person: A news-monger. (So F. gazette.)
1702Farquhar Twin Rivals i. i. (1703) 2 For that reason I communicate: I know thou art a perfect Gazette, and will spread the News all over the Town.
2. spec. One of the three official journals entitled The London Gazette, The Edinburgh Gazette, and The Dublin Gazette, issued by authority twice a week, and containing lists of government appointments and promotions, names of bankrupts, and other public notices. Hence sometimes used gen. for the official journal of any government. to be in the gazette: to be published a bankrupt.
The first official journal published in England was The Oxford Gazette, the first number of which appeared in Nov. 1665, when the Court was at Oxford on account of the plague. Nos. 22 and 23 were printed in London, and with No. 24 the title was changed to The London Gazette. The Edinburgh Gazette was first issued in 1690, The Dublin Gazette in 1705.
1665Wood Life (O.H.S.) II. 49, Oct...In this month gazets were first published at Oxon. 1685Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 324 There is a reward of 100l. published in the Gazet for any one that shal apprehend the said col. Danvers. 1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. Ser. & Com. 114 And you hear no more of our Goldsmith, till you find him in a Gazette, torn to pieces by a Statute of Bankrupt. 1762Foote Lyar i. Wks. 1799 I. 290 I'll undertake to do more business by the single aid of the London Gazette, than by all..that the whole race of rhymers have ever produced. 1805Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1837) III. 617, I do not augur any thing unfavourable to your promotion, because it is not confirmed by the last gazettes. 1817Byron Beppo xlix, Our trifling bankruptcies in the Gazette. 1831T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle Conclus. 299 The great firm of Catchflat and Company figured in the Gazette, and paid sixpence in the pound. 1855Wynter Curios. Civiliz., Advts. 15 The London Gazette..is the only paper still in existence that had its root in those days. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 48 He sometimes goes into the ‘Gazette’, paying but an infinitesimal dividend in the pound. 1897Daily News 16 Oct. 3/1 Last night's ‘Gazette’ contains the formal order that the city of Canterbury shall..be the place where assizes are holden for the County of Kent.
b. A report in an official gazette.
1801Syd. Smith in Lady Holland Life (1855) I. 50 If we were to read the gazette of a naval victory from the pulpit, we should be dazzled with the eager eyes of our audience.
3. Comb., as gazette-writer; † gazette-marks, ? the points of a description in a ‘lost or stolen’ advertisement, or in a ‘hue and cry’.
a1678Marvell Poems, Tom May's Death 267 Must therefore all the world be set on flame Because a Gazette-writer missed his aim? 1687Congreve Old Bach. ii. ii, This rascally gazetwriter never so much as once mentioned me. 1703De Foe More Reform. 670 All men would say the Picture was thy own, No Gazet Marks were half so quickly known. 1807Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 241/2 Another appointment made by the late administration was, that of gazette-writer created by patent for Scotland with a salary of {pstlg}300 per annum.
▪ II. gazette, v.|gəˈzɛt|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To publish in a gazette. Chiefly pass. to be gazetted: to be the subject of an announcement in the official gazette; to be named in the gazette as appointed to a command, etc.; also, in early use, to be mentioned or discussed in the newspapers.
to be gazetted out: said of an officer whose resignation is announced in the gazette.
1678Marvell Growth Popery Wks. 1875 IV. 406 The Parliament being grown to that height of contempt, as to be gazetted among runaway servants, lost dogs, strayed horses, and highway robbers. 1748H. Walpole Corr. (1837) II. cxcvii. 250 Mr. Villiers, you know, has been much gazetted, and had his letters to the King of Prussia printed. 1813P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 69 Received official information that I was gazetted out. 1831Lytton Godolphin 13 And very shortly afterwards, Percy Godolphin was gazetted as a cornet in the ― Life Guards. 1852Thackeray Esmond ii. ix, During this winter Mr. Esmond was gazetted to a lieutenantcy in Brigadier Webb's regiment of Fusileers. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 173/2 K.'s retirement was gazetted on the evening of the 18th Dec. 1897Daily News 4 Mar. 7/1 The fees charged are on a uniform scale, settled and gazetted by the Government Department of Labour.
Hence gaˈzetted ppl. a., gaˈzetting vbl. n.
1808Moore Corrupt. ii, That courtly ear, Which..hears no news but W―rd's gazetted lies. 1852W. Jerdan Autobiog. II. 159 After the Gazetting, another advertisement was substituted. 1856Ld. Houghton in Life (1891) II. xii. 13, I do not know why Labouchere delays the gazetting of your knighthood. 1891Daily News 4 Nov. 5/5 By a Resolution published in the ‘Calcutta Gazette’..The skin and skull of each tiger..‘should be retained until the arrival of a gazetted officer of the Sunderbuns Forest Department’. |