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  1. transitive verb To draw up or frame (a proclamation, for example).
  2. transitive verb To make ready for publication; edit or revise.

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  • They tried metapsychic deep-redact and deprivation conditioning and multiphase electroshock and narcotherapy and old-time religion. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • Tanu healers with a certain combination of PK and redact are able to work through this stuff in some metapsychic way. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • Henry's instructions to his Secretary or Ambassador at Rome he pronounces “very rough matter to set upon the table uncooked,” and recommends an Appendix, unluckily without avail. “Abridge, redact,” he exclaims towards the end, but there was no abridgment and no redaction. —  The Life of Froude
  • He also agreed to redact the names of Franciscan superiors in some of the documents. —  WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
  • The solution is too simple: just redact their names and any identifying details. —  Hullabaloo
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  1. Middle English redacten, from Latin redigere, redāct-, to drive back : re-, red-, re- + agere, to drive; see act.

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  1. from Old French redacter =Spanish redactar, redact, edit, from Latin redactus, past participle of redigere (later F. rédiger =D. redigeren =G. redigiren =Swedish redigera =Danish redigere), drive, lead, or bring back, call in, collect, raise, receive, reduce to a certain state, from red-, back, + agere, drive, do: see act.
 

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