单词 | infolio |
释义 | infolion. A folio volume or page. Cf. in folio at folio n. 5a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun] > folio volume folio1628 infolio1835 1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. 257 Drafts for composing all the Sizes that regularly descend from In-Folio , viz. Quarto's, Octavo's, Sixteen's, Thirty-two's, Sixty-four's, and Hundred twenty-eight's. 1835 Fraser's Mag. 12 457 Where huge infolios and ponderous tomes Build up Divinity's dark arsenal. 1897 W. J. Locke Derelicts xx. 346 She..took up a great in-folio black-letter. 1960 J. S. Spink French Free-Thought ii. xiii. 264 Bayle devoted a score of infolio pages, the matter of a book of considerable size, to ridiculing it [sc. Spinoza's system]. 1993 Representations 42 42 Doni abandoned large formats (the quarto of Trithelm and Bale, the infolio of Gesner) to publish his Libraria in a more manageable duodecimo format. 2001 MLN 116 713 The book went through four editions in eighteen years, shrinking in the process from an in-folio to an in-quarto, and then finally an in-octavo. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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