单词 | pocket edition |
释义 | > as lemmaspocket edition c. spec. Designating a small book which is designed to be carried in a pocket, as pocket edition (also figurative). Hence in the titles of books of this size. ΚΠ 1640 E. Verney Let. in F. P. Verney et al. Mem. Verney Family Civil War (1892) I. vii. 174 I pray be pleased to send mee a pocket prayer-book. 1654 N. Church (title) Cheap riches: or a pocket-companion. 1683 T. Gallen (title) A Compleat Pocket Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1683. 1715 London Gaz. No. 5336/3 A neat Pocket Edition of the Odes..of Horace. 1740 J. Williamson (title) The British angler, or a pocket-companion for gentlemen-fishers. 1817 J. Bunting Speech 30 Oct. in T. P. Bunting Life J. Bunting (1887) II. xv. 129 This celebrated apothegm is, I fear,..an apology for covetousness or want of zeal—‘a mere pocket edition of selfishness’. 1832 Athenæum No. 241. 375 Published in a neat pocket volume, cloth boards. 1864 G. Meredith Emilia in Eng. II. xiv. 235 I would buy a pocket-dictionary at one of the ports. 1905 G. Meredith Let. 7 May (1970) III. 1522 A pocket Italian-English phrase-book should be taken. 1977 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 125 71/1 Aldus used it [sc. italic type] for the pocket editions of classical authors which he printed in Venice around the year 1500. 2005 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 26 Feb. d1 The 30-page pocket reference guide is not intended to take the place of the 512-page other guide. < as lemmas |
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