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comprint

comprint verb: to print together.

Verb

comprint (third-person singular simple present comprints, present participle comprinting, simple past and past participle comprinted)

  1. To print together.
  2. (UK, obsolete) To reprint without permission a work belonging to another.
    • After the wars, the University Printers did, for some time, continue to comprint privileged books at Oxford, as well as those at London, but soon after came to their former agreement, but for lower payments.1781, John Gutch, Collectanea Curiosa, page 280
    • Aug. 24 [1671, letter of] Dr. Thomas Yates to Sir Leoline Jenkyns. [...] My endeavour is to place our power of printing here on the same foot that the late King's great charter doth; that is, upon our prescription and usage, which if we can, then we have a right before all patents of restraint and...1895, Mary Anne Everett Green, Francis Henry Blackburne Daniell, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II, Volume 11, page 445

Forms of comprint

third-person singular presentcomprints
present participlecomprinting
past participlecomprinted
pastcomprinted

Origin of comprint

From com- + print.

Questions about comprint

What does comprint mean?
Comprint means to print together.
What part of speech is comprint?
Comprint is a verb.
What is the past tense of comprint?
The past tense of comprint is comprinted.

Words near comprint in the dictionary

  1. compressure
  2. compressures
  3. comprest
  4. comprimario
  5. comprimarios
  6. comprint
  7. comprinted
  8. comprinting
  9. comprints
  10. comprisable
  11. comprisal

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