Thursday Word: Grangerize

[bethctg]

grangerize (transitive verb)
(greyn-juh-rahyz)

• to augment the illustrative content of (a book) by inserting additional prints, drawings, engravings, etc., not included in the original volume.

• to mutilate (books) in order to get illustrative material for such a purpose.

etymology: 1880–85; after James Granger (1723–1776), English clergyman whose Biographical History of England (1769) was arranged for such illustration; see -ize

I am going to take a page from (see what I did there?) our stonepicnicking_okapi and leave you with a photo to illustrate this word:


art by Brian Dettmer

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Hello friend! WOW You are Thursday Wordsmith! Yay! Thanks for the shout-out and what a wonderful word!! Welcome to the comm!

[bethctg]

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Thanks, you!

[amaebi]

Having learned the word from Robertson Davies's A Voice from the Attic, I've been referring to inserting relevant programs, clipped news article, and so on into books as "casual grangerization."