black lettern.

Brit.

/ˈblak lɛtə/, U.S.

/ˈblæk ˌlɛdər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., letter n.¹

Etymology: < black adj. + letter n.¹

Typography.

1. A heavy, ornate, early printing type, as contrasted with the later, lighter ‘Roman’ type. Cf. Gothic adj. 5b, Old English n. 3.A form of black letter (cf. Fraktur n.) remained in regular use in Germany until 1941, when Antiqua became the standard German type. Black letter is still sometimes used for decorative printing in England, Germany, and elsewhere.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > black letter or Gothic

black letter1639

black character1659

black print1727

blackface1767

1639 W. Balcanquhall Large Declar. Tumults Scotl. 357 The last act of that same Parliament, printed of old in black letter.

1640–4 Charge against Abp. Canterbury in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 115 His diligence to send for the Printer, and directing him to prepare a Black Letter, and to send it to his Servants at Edenburgh, for Printing this Book.

1690 S. Pepys Mem. Royal Navy 178 Wherein to be noted, That the Ships Mark'd in the Black Letter are the 30 New Ships.

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses vii. 31 The Seven-Champions, in the Black Letter.

1799 E. Fry Pantographia 73 This character..is called by the French Lettres de forme; by us it is known under the name of Old English, or Black Letter.

1823 C. Lamb Let. 9 Dec. (1935) II. 411 I..am not Bibliomanist enough to like Blackletter.

1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) i. 109 The form which is known to us as ‘Black Letter’, and which was hardly less rectilinear than the old Runes themselves.

1946 M. Lowry Let. 2 Jan. in Sursum Corda! (1995) I. 522 The occasional use of black letter for the headings juxtaposed with anything from cursive down to diamond type for the rest.

1998 Text 11 94 Just as black-letter was known as ‘english’, so roman was sometimes referred to as ‘Geneva print’ because of its association with the Geneva version of the Bible.

2. Material printed in this type. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > specific types of print

proclamation-print1592

Geneva print1606

fine print1761

black letter1811

newswork1820

hard dot1913

miniprint1975

1811 Ld. Byron Hints from Horace 101 (note) This is the millennium of black letter.

1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xxiv. 263 Like a page of black letter, taken from the history of the Italian republics.

Phrases

the black letter of the law and variants: the precise words, terms, or strict interpretation of the law, as recorded in old printed texts; the exact or literal meaning of a law (rather than its practical or humane application); cf. earlier the letter of the law at letter n.¹ 6.

ΚΠ

1762 Anecd. Relative Affairs Germany 6 The sneers of certain..[people] who believe nothing (owing to the circumscribed and black letter of the law—their darling study!) for which they have not evidence.]

1774 Ld. Camden in Scots Mag. May 236/1 I hope judges will..never pretend to decide upon a claim of property, without attending to the old black letter of our law.

1819 Rep. Decisions Constit. Court S. Carolina 1817–8 1 64 We should lose the spirit, and enjoy nothing but the black letter of the common law.

1870 Albany Law Jrnl. 19 Mar. 205/1 The philosophy of ‘the dull black letter of the law’.

1904 Sat. Rev. 24 Dec. 794/1 The old charge against Charles [i.e. King Charles I] of tyrannous illegality has now shifted right round to that of blind adherence to the black-letter of the law.

1983 Miami Herald (Nexis) 9 Jan. d6 This is applying the black letter of the law when it could have been tempered with a discretionary hand.

2008 R. Kennedy Allied Health Professionals & Law Introd. 6 The ‘black letter’ of the law is important but it operates interactively with personal morality, professional ethics and a broader conception of human rights.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, with allusion to the age, weightiness, or rarity of black letter books.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [adjective] > black letter or Gothic

black letter1763

Gothic1781

secretarial1864

1763 T. Warton Let. 14 Mar. in Percy Lett. (1951) III. 85 M^r Warner..is a great black-letter Critic.

1795 J. Ritson Robin Hood II. 1 From a black letter copy.

1807 Salmagundi 24 Nov. 369 There was a certain black-letter dignity in the name.

1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 90 He was a complete black-letter hunter.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 31 He scornfully thrust aside..all that blackletter learning.

1864 Reader 23 July 105/1 The collection of black-letter ballads.

1927 Publishers' Weekly 31 Dec. 2315/1 Black letter books and cradle books.

1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 258/2 Missal caps, decorative capitals printed with black-letter type.

1999 Oxoniensia 63 237 The black-letter inscription painted on the easternmost tiebeam of the nave roof.

C2. attributive. Law. Of a lawyer: versed in established legal principles such as appear in old printed texts. Of a law, case, etc.: based on or embodying such texts or principles; well-established, time-honoured; standard.

ΚΠ

1778 Crit. Rev. Sept. 231 His explanation appears to us, who pretend not to be black-letter lawyers, as agreeable to reason, and strongly supported by authorities.

1797 J. Holliday Life William Earl Mansfield ii. 150 The intense application, industry, and ingenuity, of the bar, exercised in deep researches into black-letter law.

1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors III. lxxiv. 115 Not much of a lawyer, compared with the black-letter men of those days.

1874 F. Wharton Treat. Law Negligence i. iii. 77 A series of similar black-letter cases follow, showing that Bacon's object was rather to explain the maxim by authorities with which the ordinary legal mind was then mainly conversant, than to bring his own matchless powers to bear in the philosophical expansion of the maxim.

1919 T. W. Bickett in Social Hygiene Apr. 274 The black letter law that a child can be nullius filius, a son of nobody, is as base in morals as it is false in biology.

1963 Times 30 May 10/5 In the legal world he became known as a ‘black letter lawyer’ because of his intimate acquaintance with the old books of common law.

2008 in F. A. Boyle Protesting Power iii. 88 It's a black-letter rule of international law..that there is what's known as universality of jurisdiction for the trial of war crimes.

C3.

black-letter day n. a day in the church calendar marked in black letters (as opposed to the red letters traditionally used to mark saints' days); (hence) an inauspicious day; cf. red-letter day n. at red letter n. Compounds 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > fact of being inauspicious > unlucky or inauspicious day

Childermas day1711

black-letter day1757

1757 T. Smollett Reprisal i. ii. 10 O! the month of November, She'll have cause to remember As a black letter day all the days of her life.

1846 Ecclesiologist Jan. 31 We are sorry to find that the modern Calendar presents us only with a selection of the black-letter days.

1883 Churchman Jan. 308 It is hardly correct to describe the ‘black-letter days’ as festivals of the Church of England.

1921 Nature 10 Nov. 331/2 April 22, 1915, when the Germans sent great volumes of the deadly chlorine gas against the Allied lines, is a black-letter day in the annals of warfare.

2008 Church Times 31 Oct. 12/2 This particular Marian feast..reappeared as a black-letter day in 1662, since when it has received fuller recognition in calendrical revisions.

Derivatives

ˈblack-ˌlettered adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > [adjective] > printed in specific type > specific

black-lettered1728

italicized1898

1728 R. Rawlinson tr. N. Lenglet Dufresnoy New Method studying Hist. II. xxxvii. 213 The Edition of 1559, is thought the best by some, though others prefer the old black-lettered Editions.

1820 W. Scott Abbot III. v^*. 143 Endeavouring..to fix her..attention on the black-lettered Bible which lay before her.

1917 F. E. Howard & F. H. Crossley Eng. Church Woodwork i. 56 The famous Burlingham pulpit is a lovely example,..and its black-lettered scroll is a good example of the decorative use of lettering.

2006 D. Neumann in Barcelona & Modernity (Cleveland Museum of Art) viii. 399 The black-lettered inscription ‘Alemania’ had adorned the building's facade from early October on.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	black letter
释义	black lettern. Brit. /ˈblak lɛtə/, U.S. /ˈblæk ˌlɛdər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., letter n.¹ Etymology: < black adj. + letter n.¹ Typography. 1. A heavy, ornate, early printing type, as contrasted with the later, lighter ‘Roman’ type. Cf. Gothic adj. 5b, Old English n. 3.A form of black letter (cf. Fraktur n.) remained in regular use in Germany until 1941, when Antiqua became the standard German type. Black letter is still sometimes used for decorative printing in England, Germany, and elsewhere. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > black letter or Gothic black letter1639 black character1659 black print1727 blackface1767 1639 W. Balcanquhall Large Declar. Tumults Scotl. 357 The last act of that same Parliament, printed of old in black letter. 1640–4 Charge against Abp. Canterbury in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 115 His diligence to send for the Printer, and directing him to prepare a Black Letter, and to send it to his Servants at Edenburgh, for Printing this Book. 1690 S. Pepys Mem. Royal Navy 178 Wherein to be noted, That the Ships Mark'd in the Black Letter are the 30 New Ships. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses vii. 31 The Seven-Champions, in the Black Letter. 1799 E. Fry Pantographia 73 This character..is called by the French Lettres de forme; by us it is known under the name of Old English, or Black Letter. 1823 C. Lamb Let. 9 Dec. (1935) II. 411 I..am not Bibliomanist enough to like Blackletter. 1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) i. 109 The form which is known to us as ‘Black Letter’, and which was hardly less rectilinear than the old Runes themselves. 1946 M. Lowry Let. 2 Jan. in Sursum Corda! (1995) I. 522 The occasional use of black letter for the headings juxtaposed with anything from cursive down to diamond type for the rest. 1998 Text 11 94 Just as black-letter was known as ‘english’, so roman was sometimes referred to as ‘Geneva print’ because of its association with the Geneva version of the Bible. 2. Material printed in this type. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > specific types of print proclamation-print1592 Geneva print1606 fine print1761 black letter1811 newswork1820 hard dot1913 miniprint1975 1811 Ld. Byron Hints from Horace 101 (note) This is the millennium of black letter. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xxiv. 263 Like a page of black letter, taken from the history of the Italian republics. Phrases the black letter of the law and variants: the precise words, terms, or strict interpretation of the law, as recorded in old printed texts; the exact or literal meaning of a law (rather than its practical or humane application); cf. earlier the letter of the law at letter n.¹ 6. ΚΠ 1762 Anecd. Relative Affairs Germany 6 The sneers of certain..[people] who believe nothing (owing to the circumscribed and black letter of the law—their darling study!) for which they have not evidence.] 1774 Ld. Camden in Scots Mag. May 236/1 I hope judges will..never pretend to decide upon a claim of property, without attending to the old black letter of our law. 1819 Rep. Decisions Constit. Court S. Carolina 1817–8 1 64 We should lose the spirit, and enjoy nothing but the black letter of the common law. 1870 Albany Law Jrnl. 19 Mar. 205/1 The philosophy of ‘the dull black letter of the law’. 1904 Sat. Rev. 24 Dec. 794/1 The old charge against Charles [i.e. King Charles I] of tyrannous illegality has now shifted right round to that of blind adherence to the black-letter of the law. 1983 Miami Herald (Nexis) 9 Jan. d6 This is applying the black letter of the law when it could have been tempered with a discretionary hand. 2008 R. Kennedy Allied Health Professionals & Law Introd. 6 The ‘black letter’ of the law is important but it operates interactively with personal morality, professional ethics and a broader conception of human rights. Compounds C1. General attributive, with allusion to the age, weightiness, or rarity of black letter books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [adjective] > black letter or Gothic black letter1763 Gothic1781 secretarial1864 1763 T. Warton Let. 14 Mar. in Percy Lett. (1951) III. 85 M^r Warner..is a great black-letter Critic. 1795 J. Ritson Robin Hood II. 1 From a black letter copy. 1807 Salmagundi 24 Nov. 369 There was a certain black-letter dignity in the name. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 90 He was a complete black-letter hunter. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 31 He scornfully thrust aside..all that blackletter learning. 1864 Reader 23 July 105/1 The collection of black-letter ballads. 1927 Publishers' Weekly 31 Dec. 2315/1 Black letter books and cradle books. 1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 258/2 Missal caps, decorative capitals printed with black-letter type. 1999 Oxoniensia 63 237 The black-letter inscription painted on the easternmost tiebeam of the nave roof. C2. attributive. Law. Of a lawyer: versed in established legal principles such as appear in old printed texts. Of a law, case, etc.: based on or embodying such texts or principles; well-established, time-honoured; standard. ΚΠ 1778 Crit. Rev. Sept. 231 His explanation appears to us, who pretend not to be black-letter lawyers, as agreeable to reason, and strongly supported by authorities. 1797 J. Holliday Life William Earl Mansfield ii. 150 The intense application, industry, and ingenuity, of the bar, exercised in deep researches into black-letter law. 1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors III. lxxiv. 115 Not much of a lawyer, compared with the black-letter men of those days. 1874 F. Wharton Treat. Law Negligence i. iii. 77 A series of similar black-letter cases follow, showing that Bacon's object was rather to explain the maxim by authorities with which the ordinary legal mind was then mainly conversant, than to bring his own matchless powers to bear in the philosophical expansion of the maxim. 1919 T. W. Bickett in Social Hygiene Apr. 274 The black letter law that a child can be nullius filius, a son of nobody, is as base in morals as it is false in biology. 1963 Times 30 May 10/5 In the legal world he became known as a ‘black letter lawyer’ because of his intimate acquaintance with the old books of common law. 2008 in F. A. Boyle Protesting Power iii. 88 It's a black-letter rule of international law..that there is what's known as universality of jurisdiction for the trial of war crimes. C3. black-letter day n. a day in the church calendar marked in black letters (as opposed to the red letters traditionally used to mark saints' days); (hence) an inauspicious day; cf. red-letter day n. at red letter n. Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > fact of being inauspicious > unlucky or inauspicious day Childermas day1711 black-letter day1757 1757 T. Smollett Reprisal i. ii. 10 O! the month of November, She'll have cause to remember As a black letter day all the days of her life. 1846 Ecclesiologist Jan. 31 We are sorry to find that the modern Calendar presents us only with a selection of the black-letter days. 1883 Churchman Jan. 308 It is hardly correct to describe the ‘black-letter days’ as festivals of the Church of England. 1921 Nature 10 Nov. 331/2 April 22, 1915, when the Germans sent great volumes of the deadly chlorine gas against the Allied lines, is a black-letter day in the annals of warfare. 2008 Church Times 31 Oct. 12/2 This particular Marian feast..reappeared as a black-letter day in 1662, since when it has received fuller recognition in calendrical revisions. Derivatives ˈblack-ˌlettered adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > [adjective] > printed in specific type > specific black-lettered1728 italicized1898 1728 R. Rawlinson tr. N. Lenglet Dufresnoy New Method studying Hist. II. xxxvii. 213 The Edition of 1559, is thought the best by some, though others prefer the old black-lettered Editions. 1820 W. Scott Abbot III. v^. 143 Endeavouring..to fix her..attention on the black-lettered Bible which lay before her. 1917 F. E. Howard & F. H. Crossley Eng. Church Woodwork* i. 56 The famous Burlingham pulpit is a lovely example,..and its black-lettered scroll is a good example of the decorative use of lettering. 2006 D. Neumann in Barcelona & Modernity (Cleveland Museum of Art) viii. 399 The black-lettered inscription ‘Alemania’ had adorned the building's facade from early October on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1639
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