| 单词 | prerogative copy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprerogative copy prerogative copy n. now historical a book of which the copyright is a prerogative of the crown. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > book with specific publication rights privilege book1607 prerogative copy1682 1682 A. Colquitt Mod. Rep. 257 The almanack that is before the Common-Prayer, proceeds from a public Constitution..and is under the Government of the Archbishop of Canterbury. So that Almanacks may be accounted Prerogative Copies. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxvii. 410. Almanacks have been said to be prerogative-copies, either as things derelict, or else as being..nothing more than the calendar prefixed to our liturgy. 1779 T. Erskine Speeches (1810) I. 41 These always did..belong to the Sovereign, and hence have gained the title of Prerogative copies. 1994 J. Feather in P. Jaszi & M. Woodmansee Construct. Authorship 192 By the early seventeenth century, some authorities held that there were ‘prerogative copies’, defined as those for which there is ‘no particular author’. < as lemmas |
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