[ad. F. stéréotyper, f. stéréotype: see prec.]
1. trans. To cast a stereotype plate from (a forme of type); to prepare (literary matter) for printing by means of stereotypes. Also absol.
1804. trans. Freylinghausen’s Abstr. Chr. Relig., title-p., The first book stereotyped by the new Process.
1818. Todd (citing Entick).
1835. W. Irving, Life & Lett. (1866), III. 74. I have nearly stereotyped the third volume of my Miscellanies.
1855. Doran, Hanov. Queens, II. x. 169. Early in 1798,… the first book was stereotyped in England.
1877. H. Spencer, in Min. Evid. Copyright Comm. (1878), 258. I was sanguine enough when I began this series of books, to stereotype.
2. fig. To fix or perpetuate in an unchanging form.
a. 1819. Rees, Cycl., s.v. Engraving, Vosterman … may be said at once to have successfully translated and stereotyped the great originals of those … painters [sc. Rubens and Vandyke].
1841. Miall, in Nonconf., I. 401. The state-church stereotypes a system of faith.
1846. Engl. Rev., Sept., 150. Yet he proposes a measure which would stereotype heresy and schism for ever.
1874. Sayce, Compar. Philol., ii. 73. Shakespeare and the Bible have stereotyped English.
1888. Tansley, in Hardwicke’s Sci.-Gossip, XXIV. 121/2. In flowers the colours are stereotyped and perpetuated by insect selection.
