gazetteered

Verb (1)

gazetteer (third-person singular simple present gazetteers, present participle gazetteering, simple past and past participle gazetteered)

1. (transitive) Synonym of gazette (“to announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette”).
   • [A]s an old friend I've got one favour to beg and to request to be granted. […] Why, when you've been gazetteered as Sir Robert and Lady Smugglefuss, that I shall be the first to be honoured with a visit.1864, C[harles] J[ames] Collins, “A Congratulatory Meeting”, in Singed Moths: A City Romance […], volume II, London: John Maxwell and Company […], →OCLC, page 74

   Synonyms:

   gazette

2. (archaic, transitive) To report about (someone) in a gazette or newspaper.
   • [O]ur modern canibals of the gazetteering tribe, leſs delicate than they, can divert themſelves in cool blood vvith the pangs of their friends, and exert their more licentious brutality amidſt the miſeries of nations in ſtrict alliance vvith their ovvn;—if ſuch inſects can be deem'd of any nation.1756, “a man of business” [pseudonym], A Satirical Review of the Manifold Falshoods and Absurdities hitherto Publish’d Concerning the Earthquake. To which is Annext, an Authentic Account of the Late...

Verb (2)

gazetteer (third-person singular simple present gazetteers, present participle gazetteering, simple past and past participle gazetteered)

1. (transitive) To describe the geography of (a country or other place) in a gazetteer (etymology 2, noun sense 1).
   • Such a cosmopolitan collection of post-marks is seldom made. They have a conventional range, from Buckingham Palace and Osborne, through university towns, scholars' libraries, remote parishes in Scotland, the seats of power in British India, to places Down East, and towns at the West not yet...1864, John Weiss, “Correspondence—Knowledge of the People—Hand-writing—Projected Work on the Development of Christianity”, in Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker, Minister of the Twenty-eighth...

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