▪ I. offprint, off-print, n.
(ˈɒfprɪnt, ɔː-)
[f. off- 3 + print, in imitation of Ger. Separatabdruck, Du. afdruk.]
A separately printed copy of an article, etc., which originally appeared as a part of a larger publication.
| 1885 Skeat in Academy 22 Aug. 121 Various terms, such as ‘deprint’, ‘exprint’, etc., have been proposed to denote a separately-printed copy of a pamphlet... By comparison with ‘offshoot’ I think we might use ‘offprint’ with some hope of expressing what is meant. 1888 F. H. Woods in Academy 21 Apr. 276 Having now obtained, through Canon Taylor's courtesy, an off-print of his paper. 1893 E. W. B. Nicholson Ibid. 11 Nov. 415, I have..examined five photographs of it, two of them attached by Lord Southesk to an off-print of his paper. |
▪ II. offprint, v.
(ˌɒfˈprɪnt, ˌɔː-; ˈɒfprɪnt, ˈɔː-)
[f. off- 1 + print v., after prec.]
trans. To print off or reprint (as an excerpt).
| 1895 in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1951 Catalogues MS. Collections Brit. Mus. (verso rear cover) Offprinted from the Journal of Documentation Volume 7. 1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) i. 8 Maynard Hoar, author of a pamphlet, ‘The Witch Hunt in Our Universities’ (off-printed from the American Scholar and mailed out gratis by the bushel to a legion of ‘prominent educators’). |