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Definition of Recensions
1. recension [n] - See also: recension
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recensions
Literary usage of Recensions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1898)
"THE SCENE-HEADINGS IN THE EARLY recensions OF PLAUTUS. ... It is well known that
in ancient recensions of dramatic authors the proper names occupied the ..."
2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"Antient recensions or editions of Hebrew Manuscripts. — V. Age of Hebrew Manuscript*.
— VI. ... Modern Families or recensions of Hebrew Manuscripts. ..."
3. The Nighaṇṭu and the Nirukta: The Oldest Indian Treatise on Etymology by Yāska, Lakshman Sarup (1920)
"two recensions. The manuscripts fall into two groups, and for the sake of
convenience and brevity, may be called A and B—A representing the longer and B the ..."
4. The Panchatantra-text of Purnabhadra by Johannes Hertel (1912)
"Below is given a statement of the various Indian recensions, and in such a tabular
form as to make clear the genetic relations. The Brahmanical recensions ..."
5. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and by Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred Plummer, Charles Augustus Briggs (1908)
"recensions OF THE TEXT. There are persistent and probably trustworthy ... In the
history of the text of our book, we may then discern three recensions. ..."
6. A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Canonical Scriptures of the by Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette (1843)
"OTHER CRITICAL recensions. On account of the unreasonable and careless use of
Origen's critical work, new corruptions were introduced into the text of the ..."
7. A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Canonical Scriptures of the by Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette (1843)
"a OTHER CRITICAL recensions. On account of the unreasonable and careless use of
Origen's critical work, new corruptions were introduced into the text of the ..."
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