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magazine,originally a place where goods are stored, now also a periodical publication containing articles by different authors. Thus the Gentleman's Magazine in the introduction to its first number ( 1731 ) described itself as ‘a Monthly Collection to store up, as in a Magazine, the most remarkable Pieces on the Subjects above-mentioned’. The word had been used before this for a storehouse of information.
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