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Definition of Recension
1. n. The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration.
Definition of Recension
1. Noun. A critical revision of a text ¹
2. Noun. A text established by critical revision ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Recension
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Medical Definition of Recension
1. 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. Origin: L. Recensio: cf. F. Recension. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Recension
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1852)
"It agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, but has a few ... It agrees with
the Alexandrine recension, and was collated in select passages. 72. ..."
2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1840)
"It contains lessons from the New Testament, and agrees with the Alexandrine
recension. The whole of this manuscript was collated. (il. ..."
3. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and by Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred Plummer, Charles Augustus Briggs (1908)
"Jerome in his preface to Chronicles and preface to the Gospel (</. Adv. Rufin.
ii.) says that Hesychius was the author of a recension of the ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"History of the Controversy,—The history of the controversy may be divided into
three periods: (a) up to the discovery of the short recension in 1646; ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1908)
"H. was originally written by a Catholic, and the heretical parts belong to a
later recension. Dr. Headlam, in a very interesting article, considers that the ..."
6. The New Testament in the original Greek by Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort (1896)
"As we have already observed (§§ '85, 19°), the Syrian text must have been due to
a revision which was in fact a recension, and which may with fair ..."
7. Studies in Honor of Maurice Bloomfield by Maurice Bloomfield (1920)
"First, one soon notices that in nearly every recension not all the verses are
accounted for. The chief cause seems to be that the missing verses have ..."
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