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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stereotype \Ste"re*o*type\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Stereotyped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stereotyping}.] [Cf. F. st['e]r['e]otyper.]
1. To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.
2. Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.
Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions. --Duke of Argyll (1887).
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