单词 | to be in the gazette |
释义 | > as lemmasto be in the gazette a. spec. One of the three official journals entitled The London Gazette, The Edinburgh Gazette, and The Dublin Gazette, issued by authority twice a week, and containing lists of government appointments and promotions, names of bankrupts, and other public notices. Hence sometimes used gen. for the official journal of any government. to be in the gazette: to be published a bankrupt.The first official journal published in England was The Oxford Gazette, the first number of which appeared in Nov. 1665, when the Court was at Oxford on account of the plague. Nos. 22 and 23 were printed in London, and with No. 24 the title was changed to The London Gazette. The Edinburgh Gazette was first issued in 1690, The Dublin Gazette in 1705. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > official gazettes gazette1665 hue and cry1827 Birthday Gazette1869 1665 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 49 In this month [sc. Oct. or Nov.] gazets were first published at Oxon. 1685 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 324 There is a reward of 100l. published in the Gazet for any one that shal apprehend the said col. Danvers. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 114 And you hear no more of our Goldsmith, till you find him in a Gazette, torn to pieces by a Statute of Bankrupt. 1764 S. Foote Lyar i. ii. 19 I'll undertake to do more business by the single aid of the London Gazette, than by all..that the whole race of rhymers have ever produc'd. 1805 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) III. 617 I do not augur any thing unfavourable to your promotion, because it is not confirmed by the last gazettes. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xlvi. 24 Our trifling bankruptcies in the Gazette. 1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle Concl. 299 The great firm of Catchflat and Company figured in the Gazette, and paid sixpence in the pound. 1855 A. Wynter Curiosities of Civilisation Advts. 15 The London Gazette..is the only paper still in existence that had its root in those days. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 48 He sometimes goes into the ‘Gazette’, paying but an infinitesimal dividend in the pound. 1897 Daily News 16 Oct. 3/1 Last night's ‘Gazette’ contains the formal order that the city of Canterbury shall..be the place where assizes are holden for the County of Kent. < as lemmas |
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