Comprint
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Comprint is a verb meaning To print together.
Meaning
To print together.
More Meanings
- (UK, law, obsolete) To reprint without permission a work belonging to another.
Example Sentences
Proclaiming himself the trade's equivalent to Luther, he [Elizabethan printer John Wolfe] and a band of colleagues began systematically to comprint patented books.
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.
And in 1685, the Bishop of Oxford, John Fell, similarly noted that authors granted copyrights to booksellers. Writing to John Bellinger, one of the Wardens of the Company, the Bishop stated that the University of Oxford would not 'comprint the Books that the Company have in their Patents, or belong by way of Coppyright from the Authors of Books'.
Word Forms
- comprints
- comprinting
- comprinted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include concat, combo, intercombine, coinstall, manifold, collate.
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