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Definition of: grangerize
(grān′jər·īz) v.t. ·ized, ·iz·ing
1. To illustrate (a book) with prints, engravings, etc., taken from other books.
2. To mutilate (a book) by cutting out the illustrations. [after Rev. James Granger, 1723–76, whose Biographical History of England (1769) was so illustrated]
—grang′er·ism noun
—grang′er·i·za′tion noun
—grang′er·iz′er noun
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