diaskeuast

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  1. A reviser; an interpolator: used especially with reference to old recensions of Greek writings. Also written diasceuast. I should be inclined to suspect the hand of the diaskeuast in this passage more than in almost any other of the poems. Gladstone, Studies on Homer, II. 83. But these fables only purport to be Babrius spoiled, after having passed through the hands of a diasceuast: that is, some late writer who has turned his verses into barbarous Greek and wretched metre. Encyc. Brit., III. 181.

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  1. from Greek διασκενασ, σ1τής, a reviser, an interpolator, from διασκενάζειν, get quite ready, set in order, revise for publication, from διά, through, + σκενάζειν, make ready, prepare, from σκεῦος, implement, tool, equipment.
 

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