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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To illustrate in the method called grangerism.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To illustrate (a book) with material such as images taken from other published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
  2. v. transitive To illustrate with material taken from published sources.
  3. v. transitive To remove material, especially images, from a publication.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of other books.

Etymologies

  1. granger +‎ -ize, after James Granger, an 18th century English biographer. Granger's Biographical History of England (1769) included areas for readers to illustrate the pages. (Wiktionary)

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  • Prolagus I met this word for the first time last week, at this exhibition. Aug 28, 2009

  • reesetee A hazard of rare book collecting. May 17, 2008

  • whichbe To illustrate a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use. (Wiktionary) May 17, 2008

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