单词 | newsbook |
释义 | newsbookn. Now historical. A small newspaper.In common use from about 1650 to 1700. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > small newsbook1643 newspaperlinga1842 1643 in J. Raymond Making News (1993) ii. 96 Sir Will. Waller hath taken Cyrencester, which is reported confidently in one of their Newes-bookes. 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie To Rdr. sig. A5 The situation and affairs of each Town of War..which are presented to him in the Weekly News-Books. 1680 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 44 For suppressing the printing and publishing unlicens'd news books and pamphlets of news. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 326 It is in the News-books put, There's nothing can be truer. 1807 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. (ed. 5) I. 263 A Mercury was the prevailing title of these ‘News-Books’. 1854 De Bow's Rev. Mar. 325 Periodical papers seem first to have been more generally used by the English during the civil wars of the time of the Commonwealth... They were called weekly news-books. 1921 Mod. Lang. Notes 36 26 Additional evidence that the application of canting to the speech of the clergy came after 1650 is found in another newsbook. 1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 424/1 His importance lies in his combined role as army agent, official correspondent, and parliamentary licenser of newsbooks and pamphlets. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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