† visorumn.

Etymology: For visorium (so in French), aphetic for divisorium (so in German), a special use of medieval Latin divisorium a dividing thing or part.

Obsolete.

A device formerly used by compositors while setting up, to indicate the line on the copy.

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society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > device to indicate line on copy

visorum1659

1659 C. Hoole tr. J. A. Comenius Visible World (1672) 190 The Compositor..(according to the Copy, which he hath fastened before him in a Visorum) composeth words in a composing-stick.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 212 Some Compositers use Visorums,..pricking the point of the Visorum..upon the Border or Frame of the Case.

1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 383 When our Copy is very wide we use a Divisorium (commonly called Visorum), we chuse to move it each time downwards, to compose what by that means appears from under the Visorum.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	visorum
释义	† visorumn. Etymology: For visorium (so in French), aphetic for divisorium (so in German), a special use of medieval Latin divisorium a dividing thing or part. Obsolete. A device formerly used by compositors while setting up, to indicate the line on the copy. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > device to indicate line on copy visorum1659 1659 C. Hoole tr. J. A. Comenius Visible World (1672) 190 The Compositor..(according to the Copy, which he hath fastened before him in a Visorum) composeth words in a composing-stick. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 212 Some Compositers use Visorums,..pricking the point of the Visorum..upon the Border or Frame of the Case. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 383 When our Copy is very wide we use a Divisorium (commonly called Visorum), we chuse to move it each time downwards, to compose what by that means appears from under the Visorum. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1659
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