Pub`li*ca"tion (?), n.
[L. publicatio confiscation: cf. F. publication. See Publish.]
1. The act of
publishing or making known; notification to the people
at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes
or edicts.
2. The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by
sale or by gratuitous distribution.
The publication of these papers was not owing
to our folly, but that of others.
Swift. 3. That which is
published or made known; especially, any book, pamphlet, etc., offered for sale or to public notice; as, a daily or monthly publication.
4.
An act done in public. [R. & Obs.]
His jealousy
. . . attends the business,
the recreations, the
publications, and retirements of every man.
Jer. Taylor. Publication of a libel (Law), such an exhibition of a libel as brings it to the notice of
at least one person other than the person libeled. -- Publication of a will (Law), the delivery of a
will, as his
own, by a testator to witnesses who attest it.
Hear it pronounced