The Collaborative International Dictionary
Publish \Pub"lish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Published; p. pr. & vb. n. Publishing.] [F. publier, L. publicare, publicatum. See Public, and -ish.]
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To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.
Published was the bounty of her name.
--Chaucer.The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand.
--Addison. To make known by posting, or by reading in a church; as, to publish banns of marriage.
To send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to print, and issue from the press.
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To utter, or put into circulation; as, to publish counterfeit paper. [U.S.]
To publish a will (Law), to acknowledge it before the witnesses as the testator's last will and testament.
Syn: To announce; proclaim; advertise; declare; promulgate; disclose; divulge; reveal. See Announce.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: publish)
WordNet
adj. prepared and printed for distribution and sale; "the complete published works Dickens" [ant: unpublished]
formally made public; "published accounts" [syn: promulgated]
Usage examples of "published".
Locock published, in a quarto volume of seventy-five pages, the fruits of a careful scrutiny of the Shelley manuscripts now lodged in the Bodleian Library.
August 15, 1819, sent the manuscript to Hunt to be published anonymously by Ollier.
Those writings which I have hitherto published, have been little else than visions which impersonate my own apprehensions of the beautiful and the just.
A facsimile of the Wise manuscript was published by the Shelley Society in 1887.
See the description of the beautiful colours produced during the agonizing death of a number of trout, in the fourth part of a long poem in blank verse, published within a few years.
Fragments were edited from manuscript Shelley D1 at the Bodleian Library and published by Mr.
Translations that follow a few were published by Shelley himself, others by Mrs.
Rossetti we owe the reconstruction of this fragmentary drama out of materials partly published by Mrs.
The deluge of self-published and vanity published e-books, music tracks and art works has generated few masterpieces and a lot of trash.
It is a venerable, not for profit, print journal published by Emerson College, now marking its 30th anniversary.
Millions of authors are now able to realize their dream to have their work published cheaply and without editorial barriers to entry.
This is an especially grave matter in academic publishing where small- circulation magazines do not allow their content to be quoted or published even for non-commercial purposes.
More journal publishers are allowing authors to put their published papers online free of charge e.
This volume, therefore, while the most comprehensive dissertation yet published on modern science fiction and the authors who create it, is essentially selective.
With the exception of Ray Bradbury, on whose career several monographs have been published, the material in this book represents the most complete biographical and critical treatment the several authors discussed have ever received.