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PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 299 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press) , a word which appears in English in the 13th and 14th centuries with three particular
' The style "president " was in every case exchanged for that of "
governor
  " within a few years of the proclamation of the independence of the United States. The title " president " is no longer used for any
governor
  under the British Crown, but relics of past usage survive in the " presidencies " of Madras and Bombay.
meanings, viz. (r) crowd or throng, often used of the melee in a battle, (2) a shelved cupboard for books or clothes, and (3) an apparatus for exerting pressure on various substances, and for various purposes. The first meaning is still current, though usually it has a literary air; a specific use is the nautical one of " press of sail," i.e. as much sail as the wind will allow; cf. the similar use of " crowd." The second use has given way to other words, but is still the technical term in use in libraries, where the books
bear
  " press-marks " specifying the case or shelf where they may be found. As a term for a machine or apparatus for exerting pressure, there are innumerable examples, usually with a qualifying word giving the purpose for which the pressure is applied, either for attaining compression into a small space, or a required shape, or for extracting juices or liquids, or the methods adopted for exerting the pressure. The printing-press has given rise to obvious transferred uses of the word " press ": thus it is applied to an
establishment
  for printing, e.g. the Clarendon Press, at Oxford, or the Pitt Press, at
Cambridge
 , to a printing-
house
  and to the staff which conduct the business, to the issue of printed matter and especially to its daily or periodical issue, hence
newspapers
  and
periodicals
  generally. According to the New English Dictionary this use originated in phrases such as " the liberty of the press," " to write for the press," &c. The earliest
quotation
  given is from the first number of the Dublin Press, 1797. For the history of the liberty or freedom of the press see PRESS LAWS; also
NEWSPAPERS
  and
PERIODICALS
 . For the punishment of "pressing " see
PEINE
  FORTE ET DURE. It is now recognized that " press " in " press gang," " to press," i.e. to force or compulsorily enlist men for naval or military service, is a word distinct from the above. It stands for the earlier " prest," and is ultimately due to French prefer, to lend (see IMPRESSMENT).


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