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o prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.

The office or charge of an editor; care and superintendence of a publication.

A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac."

The thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another. Shak.

An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.

nce in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication. -- adv.

nimosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications. Burke.

A conservation, or questioning, for the purpose of eliciting information for publication; the published statement so elicited.

rview with another for the purpose of eliciting his opinions or obtaining information for publication. It would have made him the prince of interviewers in these days. Leslie Stephen.

A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc. ; a periodical; a magazine.

The periodical collection and publication of current news; the business of managing, editing, or writing for, journals or newspapers; as, political journalism. Journalism is now truly an estate of the realm. Ed. Rev.

A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law.

a) Property which consists in written or printed compositions. (b) The exclusive right of publication as recognized and limited by law.

A publication which appears regularly once a month.

A magazine or other publication which appears at stated or regular intervals.

t matter in several languages; esp., the Scriptures in several languages. Enriched by the publication of polyglots. Abp. Newcome.

The art or business of printing and publishing; hence, printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a curse.

Closure. -- Previous to, before; -- often used adverbially for previously. "Previous to publication." M. Arnold. "A policy . . . his friends had advised previous to 1710." J. H. Newman.

r the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.

The act of proclaiming; official or general notice; publication. King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted. 1 Kings xv. 22.