"comprint" meaning in English

See comprint in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: comprints [present, singular, third-person], comprinting [participle, present], comprinted [participle, past], comprinted [past]
Etymology: From com- + print. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|com|print}} com- + print Head templates: {{en-verb}} comprint (third-person singular simple present comprints, present participle comprinting, simple past and past participle comprinted)
  1. To print together.
    Sense id: en-comprint-en-verb-qOHj14FP
  2. (UK, law, obsolete) To reprint without permission a work belonging to another. Tags: UK, obsolete Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-comprint-en-verb-N6O-swuo Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with com-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 85 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with com-: 29 71 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 19 81 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 16 84 Topics: law

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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 reservation of the sole printing of some books, and then we shall not be restrained by the patents granted to the King's printers, the Stationers, and others, but shall be at liberty to comprint with them all their books, which is all we shall desire, for we are resolved to print better and with more care than those that now print, and to sell cheaper, which is the proper and best use we can make of such a privilege.",
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          "ref": "2009, Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, page 256:",
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          "text": "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'.",
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