grangerising

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

grangerising

  1. present participle and gerund of grangerise

Noun[edit]

grangerising

  1. Synonym of grangerisation
    • 1893, Charles Isaac Elton, Mary Augusta Elton, The Great Book-Collectors[1], page 122:
      The practice of ‘grangerising,’ or stuffing out an author with prints and pages from other works, was even praised by Dibdin as ‘useful and entertaining,’ though in our own time it is rightly condemned as a malpractice.
    • [1922, P. B. M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home[2], 2nd edition, London: Philip Allan & Co., page 122:
      As to the practice of inserting illustrations in books that are published without them, ‘Grangerising,’ as it is called, it is perhaps best left alone.]

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