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Word of the Day for Thursday, January 20, 2011grangerize \GRYEN-juh-rahyz\, verb: 1. To add to the visual content of a book by inserting images not included in the original volume, often by mutilating other books. He looked up from his reading, "An Illustrated History of Sparta," which he proceeded to grangerize. If, however, Mr. Lindsay is determined to grangerize his collections, I would suggest that before he does so he should examine the illustrated Clarendon in the Bodleian Library which has the character for being the most magnificent grangerized book in existence. Grangerize is named after James Granger (1723-1776), an English clergyman whose "Biographical History of England" (1769) included areas for additional illustrations. | |||||||||
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