Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A critical revision of a text incorporating the most plausible elements found in varying sources.
- n. A text so revised.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Review; examination; enumeration.
- n. A critical or methodical revision, as of the text of a book or document; alteration of a text according to some authority, standard, or principle; a reëditing or systematic revisal.
- n. A text established by critical or systematic revision; an edited version.
- n. A critical examination, as of a book; a review; a critique.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration.
- n. Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.
- n. The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version.
Etymologies
- From Latin recēnsiō ("review"), from recēnseō ("review"), from re- + cēnseō ("give an opinion"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin recēnsiō, recēnsiōn-, a reviewing, from recēnsēre, to review : re-, re- + cēnsēre, to estimate; see kens- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The correct historical setting indicates that the recension was the work of an Abyssinian of the sixth century, who wished to date the establishment of the Abyssinian”
“It seems to be very much the same recension which is exhibited by Coisl.”
“Peisistratic "recension," goes far to prove, that, among the numerous manuscripts they examined, this was either wanting, or thought unworthy of attention.”
“Alexandrine critics respecting the Peisistratic "recension," goes far to prove, that, among the numerous manuscripts they examined, this was either wanting, or thought unworthy of attention.”
“recension," but, in his understanding, he finds the word most descriptive of the process to be forgery.”
“It seems to be very much the same recension which is exhibited by Coisl. 19 (_infrà_,”
“There's nothing in the rite itself that is un-Catholic; you could have told me that this is simply an English recension of the Roman rite for Vespers-Compline and I would believe you!”
“The Eastern-rite monks in this monastery observe the Russian Nikonian recension of the Byzantine Rite, making it one of the very few places where the Russian Orthodox liturgical tradition is celebrated in all its purity in communion with the Catholic Church.”
“The Gospel of Thomas in a Coptic recension particularly popular among Texan Baptists says that where there are three gods, there they are truly blogs.”
“Claes Andersson har skrivit en recension av Sydänfilmi här.”
Lists
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Tweets
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timrmortiss "I am not of the human recension myself. I am a mobile extension of the machine Epiktistes and I have something to convey to you."
- R. A. Lafferty, Arrive at Easterwine Aug 2, 2008
timrmortiss Peter Pitchlynn died in Washington D. C., January 17, 1881, a white man, the son of white man John Pitchlynn. But -by an alternate recension- he had been born a full-blood Indian named Ha-Tchoo-Tuck-Nee.
- R. A. Lafferty, Okla Hannali Aug 2, 2008
yarb The rise and fall of water from the bathroom onto the kitchen, living room, and front and rear steps was instantaneous and uncontrollable, allowing them only a murmur of a crescendo in unison of the names of a trilogy of Baballo's recension disembodying the pathos, the terror and the ineluctable fate of its happening: "Pia Mia, Le Spectre de la Rose, La Forza del Destino."
- Louis Zukofsky, Little Jun 20, 2008