单词 | to send to press |
释义 | > as lemmasto send (also commit, etc.) to (the) press b. to send (also commit, etc.) to (the) press: to submit to be printed or published. ΚΠ 1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue Ep. Ded. The world..called vpon mee, to put it to the presse. 1605 Gunpowder Plot in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 5 Being about to commit them to the press. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 696 A stop was made for some years of bringing the second [vol.] to the Press. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 274 It will be submitted to the Press in the course of the ensuing month. 1855 Harper's Mag. June 81/2 He may venture to send his travels to press, assured that he is not adding one to the myriads of bad books. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xlii. 367 I have long had on hand a work which I would fain leave behind me in such a state, at least, that it might be committed to the press. 1900 Dict. National Biogr. at Wolfe, Reyner Stow prepared for publication a history of England,..and was urged by Archbishop Whitgift to send it to press. 1997 Bks. in Canada (Nexis) Dec. 18 Before the famous courtesan sent her book to press in 1825 she offered, for a fee, to omit stories concerning her more famous habitues. < as lemmas |
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