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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Publication \Pub`li*ca"tion\, n. [L. publicatio confiscation:
cf F. publication. See {Publish}.]
1. The act of publishing or making known notification to the
people at large either by words writing, or printing;
proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as the
publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of
the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.
2. The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to
the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution.
The publication of these papers was not owing to our
folly, but that of others --Swift.
3. That which is published or made known especially, any
book, pamphlet, etc., offered for sale or to public
notice; as a daily or monthly publication.
4. An act done in public. [R. & Obs.]
His jealousy . . . attends the business, the
recreations, the publications, and retirements of
every man. --Jer. Taylor.
{Publication of a libel} (Law), such an exhibition of a libel
as brings it to the notice of at least one person other
than the person libeled.
{Publication of a will} (Law), the delivery of a will as his
own by a testator to witnesses who attest it
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
publication
n 1: a printed work offered for distribution
2: the act of issuing printed materials [syn: {issue}]
3: the business of publishing [syn: {publishing}]
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