ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] a. lit. Cast in the form of, or prepared for printing by means of, stereotype. rare. b. Usually fig. Fixed or perpetuated in an unchanging form. (Most commonly of phrases or formulas of speech, or the like; rarely of persons.)
1820. T. Hodgson, Ess. Stereotype Printing, 57. Hoffmann … announced a stereotyped (or in his phrase a polytyped) book … which appeared in 1787. Ibid., 95. They engaged to sell stereotyped plates.
1849. Knife & Fork, 29. That common, every-day love, that contents itself with stereotyped epithets of endearment.
1854. Mrs. Gaskell, North & South, xii. Uttering … stereotyped commonplaces.
1862. Thackeray, Philip, iii. Phil’s father … entered the dining-room … with his stereotyped smile.
1900. A. Church & Peterson, Nervous & Mental Dis. (ed. 2), 663. A single motion of the arm or body may be reiterated for hours (stereotyped movements).
1912. Throne, 7 Aug., 213/3. The stereotyped business man who thinks a successful commercial career must begin with the sweeping out of a draper’s shop.
