vbl. sb. [f. STEREOTYPE v. + -ING1.]
1. The action or process of making stereotype plates for printing. Also attrib.
1807. Monthly Mag., May, 372/2. The wear of moveable types, in Stereotyping, does not exceed 5l. per cent. of the heavy expence incurred by the old method of printing.
1820. T. Hodgson, Ess. Stereotype Printing, 87. A plate was then obtained from the matrice by means of the stereotyping, or striking, machine.
1904. H. Spencer, Autobiog., II. 164. The cost of composition and stereotyping.
2. fig. The action of fixing or perpetuating in an unchanging form.
1888. Bulman in Hardwicke’s Sci.-Gossip, XXIV. 231/2. The ‘stereotyping’ of the developed colours by insect selection.
1903. Morley, Gladstone, IX. vii. III. 331. There ought to be no stereotyping of our minds against modifications.
1914. J. Patrick, Clement of Alexandria, vi. 220. An illustration of a familiar experience—the stereotyping of an error, not recognised as an error in the mind of a writer.
