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gazetteer|gæzəˈtɪə(r)|
Also 7 gazettier, gazetiere.
[a. F. gazettier (now written gazetier) = It. gazzettiere: see gazette n. and -eer1.]
1. One who writes in a gazette; a journalist, a retailer of news. (Now only Hist.)
1611Donne Panegyr. Verses in Coryat Crudities d 3 Mount now to Gallo-Belgicus; Appeare As deepe a States⁓man as a Gazettier [1650 Poems p. 262 Garreteir]. 1653G. Webbe Pract. Quietnesse xxvi. 249 Such Makebates, idle Garitiers [? read Gazitiers], and tatling News-carriers, are very rife every where in the world. 1664Evelyn Let. 31 Oct. in Diary (1879) III. 295 He [Sorbiere] styles himself Historiograph du Roy, the mighty meede of the co'monest Gazetiere, as that of Conseiller du Roy is of every trifling petifoger. 1671Marvell Corr. Wks. 1872–5 II. 393, I address myself, which is all I am good for, to be your gazettier. 1693[see 3 note]. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. II. 10 June, Let. i, The flimsy reveries of an ignorant gazetteer. 1817J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 26 Nov. (1884) Those who go out do not call upon me, so that I am but a bad gazetteer. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. ix. vi. II. 460 Gazetteers, who would earn their wages..had to watch with all eagerness the movements of King August.
b. A journalist appointed and paid by Government.
1711Swift Let. 8 Nov. Wks. 1762 XIV. 70, I have got poor Dr. King who was some time in Ireland, to be Gazetteer, which will be worth 250l. per annum to him. 1738Pope Epil. Sat. i. 84 No Gazetteer more innocent than I. 1755Johnson, Gazetteer, it was lately a term of the utmost infamy, being usually applied to wretches who were hired to vindicate the court. 1843Macaulay Ess., Addison (1887) 792 Steele had been appointed Gazetteer by Sunderland. 1884W. J. Courthope Addison v. 85 The office of Gazetteer became henceforth a regular ministerial appointment.
†2. A newspaper, gazette. Obs.
1730–46Thomson Autumn 558 Glasses and bottles, pipes and gazetteers. 1742Fielding J. Andrews ii. xvii, ‘Gazetteers’, answered Adams; ‘What is that?’ ‘It is a dirty newspaper’, replied the host. 1769Burke Pres. St. Nat. Wks. II. 13 They have drawled through columns of Gazetteers and Advertisers for a century together.
3. A geographical index or dictionary.
A work of this kind, by L. Echard (ed. 2, 1693), bore the title ‘The Gazetteer's: or, Newsman's Interpreter: Being A Geographical Index’. ‘The Title’, he says, ‘was given me by a very eminent Person, whom I forbear to name’ (Pref. p. 1). In Part ii, published in 1704, the author refers to the book as ‘the Gazetteer’ simply (see quot.).
1704L. Echard Gazetteer's or Newsman's Interpr. ii. Pref., The kind Reception the Gazetteer has met with in the World..[has] induced us to go on with a second Part. 1751(title) England's Gazetteer, and accurate Description of all the Towns, Cities, Villages, &c. 1806Gazetteer Scotl. (ed. 2) Introd. 20 Scotland has five Universities..of which an account will be found in the Gazetteer. 1853(title) Dictionary of Geography, forming a complete Gazetteer of the world. 1875Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. (1876) 137 The ‘Polyolbion’ is nothing less than a versified gazetteer of England and Wales.
Hence gazeˈtteer v. trans., to describe geographically in gazetteers; gazeˈtteerage, the class of gazette-writers; gazeˈtteering vbl. n., the making of gazetteers; gazeˈtteering ppl. a., that writes in gazettes; gazeˈtteerish a., resembling the style of a gazetteer; gazeˈtteership, the position of official gazetteer.
1799Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1800) III. 152 You and your partner, and gazetteering brother chip, are all of the same block. 1860A. L. Windsor Ethica v. 221 An unlucky paper in his ‘Tatler’ lost Steele his gazetteership. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xxi. vi. X. 105 [He] saw..the general Gazetteerage everywhere, seized of this affair, and thrown into paroxysms at the size and complexion of it. 1875Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. (1876) 137 Neither of them [Drayton and Daniel] could make poetry coalesce with gazetteering or chronicle-making. 1890Chambers' Encycl. V. 120 Few countries, if any, are more thoroughly gazetteered than France. 1891Review of Rev. Jan. 77/2 A brief paper on ‘Armour for Warships’, which is somewhat gazetteerish and historical. |