Crossword-Solution: TYPEFOUNDER
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| someone who founds or casts printers' type | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
DIVENI
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with TYPEFOUNDER (5)
Old man Chapman's a pretty good typefounder, you have to hand it to him." He smiled at this conceit, seized hat and coat, and dashed out of the lunchroom.
The late Alderman Besley, a typefounder, and a great friend of John Childs, as well as Robert Childs, practical printers, gave conclusive evidence on this head, and the result was that, although the patent was renewed for thirty years, instead of sixty as before, the Scriptures were sold to the public at a greatly reduced price, and the trade in Bibles, though nominally protected, has ever since been practically free.
William Morris, where artist, wood engraver, typefounder, papermaker, printer, and bookbinder work under the guiding spirit (when not the actual handwork) of the author.
What are the facts? The typefounder of to-day takes down a Venetian writing-master's copybook of the fifteenth century, and, imitating exactly the thick downward strokes of the reed pen, forms a set of movable type, called in printer's language "old face"; a style of letter much in vogue in 1894, but the style and character of which belongs altogether to the past.
Pemberton identifies it with Caslon lettering, Caslon the Elder, English typefounder in the sixteen hundreds.