comprint

comprint. (kom-print).Copyright. Hist. The surreptitious and supposedly illegal printing of another bookseller’s copy of a work. • Despite the word’s appearance as a legal term in dictionaries since 1706, no such offense ever existed. The term, which is properly a verb meaning “to share in printing (a book),” was first given this erroneous definition by John Kersey when he produced a new edition of Edward Phillips’s New World of English Words. It has occasionally been copied by legal lexicographers ever since.

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译员Bernardine，毕业于英国顶尖的高级翻译学院，专注翻译各种与医疗保健及生命科学有关的法律文件。