Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PUB-LI-CA'TION, n. [L. publicatio, from publico, from publicus.]

1. The act of publishing or offering to public notice; notification to a 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 or writing to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution. The author consented to the publication of his manuscripts.
3. A work printed and published; any pamphlet or book offered for sale or to public notice; as, a new publication; a monthly publication.