Stacyonere, or he that sellythe bokys, stacionarius, bibliopola.—Promptorium.
I doubt not but that the Animadverter’s stationer doth hope and desire that he hath thus pleased people in his book, for the advancing of the price and quickening the sale thereof.—Fuller, Appeal of Injured Innocence, p. 38.
The right of the printed copies (which the stationer takes as his own freehold), was dispersed in five or six several hands.—Oley, Preface to Dr. Jackson’s Works.
Quarles, Chapman, Heywood, Wither had applause,
And Wild, and Ogilby in former days;
But now are damned to wrapping drugs and wares,
And cursed by all their broken stationers.
Oldham, A Satire.
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| Stickler. |
Now to stand with a certain pertinacity to one’s point, refusing to renounce or go back from it; but formerly to interpose between combatants and separate them, when they had sufficiently satisfied the laws of honour. Our present meaning of the word connects itself with the past in the fact that the ‘sticklers,’ or seconds, as we should call them now, often fulfilled another function, being ready to maintain in their own persons and by their own arms the quarrel of their principals, and thus to ‘stickle’ for it. [The word ‘stickle’ represents the Middle English ‘stightlen,’ to order, arrange; for an interesting account of its cognates see Skeat’s Dictionary.]