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Recension   Listen
noun
Recension  n.  
1.
The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration.
2.
Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.
3.
The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version.





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"Recension" Quotes from Famous Books



... N. numeration; numbering &c v.; pagination; tale, recension^, enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation, supputation^; calculation, calculus; algorithm, algorism^, rhabdology^, dactylonomy^; measurement &c 466; statistics. arithmetic, analysis, algebra, geometry, analytical geometry, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... to obtain the recension of the punitive decrees of the Venetian Council, but they proved abortive, and nothing could be done in Venice for Bianca and Pietro. In Florence Don Francesco could do as he willed. His father, Cosimo, had already made over to him much ...
— The Tragedies of the Medici • Edgcumbe Staley


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