summit?
Barnhart
ADS-L at HIGHLANDS.COM
Wed Jun 11 09:51:35 UTC 2003
The use of summit as a verb is recorded first in _The Second Barnhart
Dictionary of New English_ (c. 1980) with an e.q. [earliest quote] of
1972. This is in the sense of "to engage or participate in a summit
meeting" (a political context). In the sense of "reaching a mountain
summit" the first dictionary encounter is in _The Barnhart Dictionary
Companion_ (Vol. 11.4, c. 1999) with a e.q. 1985(?). These were
quickly tracked down with the aid of _The Barnhart New-Words
Concordance_ (2003).
It seems one has to toot one's own trumpet. Slam me if you will for
commercialism, but do it off-list.
Happy word-sleuthing from,
David
barnhart at highlands.com
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