grangerize
Meanings
verb
- 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.
- To illustrate with material taken from published sources.
- To remove material, especially images, from a publication.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From 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.
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