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pamphlet noun & verb. LME.
[Use of Pamphilet, familiar name of a 12th-cent. Latin love poem Pamphilus, seu de Amore.]
A. noun. A group of several printed or (formerly) written pages, fewer than would make a book, fastened together without a hard cover and issued as a single or (formerly) periodical work; esp. one of which the text is of a minor, ephemeral, or controversial nature; a booklet; a leaflet. LME.
b. verb.
verb intrans. Write a pamphlet or pamphlets. Long rare or obsolete. L16.
verb trans. Report or describe in a pamphlet. Now rare or obsolete. E18.
verb trans. Distribute pamphlets to. L20.
pamphletary adjective pertaining to or of the nature of a pamphlet E17.
pam'phletic adjective (rare) = pamphletary E18.
pamphletize verb intrans. & trans. write a pamphlet or pamphlets (on) M17.