Recension

Quick meaning: Recension is a noun meaning A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.

Meaning

A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.

More Meanings

1. A critical revision of a text.
2. A text established by critical revision.
3. A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.

Example Sentences

And so in different recensions, different poems will appear in different places.

Of Theon of Alexandria, there remain a recension of Euclid's Elements, Scholia on Aratus, and a Commentary on the Syntaxis of Ptolemy.

The existence of two major literary centres in the First Bulgarian Empire led to the emergence of two recensions of Old Church Slavonic: the Bulgarian Recension and the Macedonian Recension.

The Śatapatha-Bráhmaṇa has been commented in the Mádhyaṃdina recension by Harisvámin and Sáyaṇa; but their commentaries are so far extant only in a fragmentary form. The Vṛihad-Áraṇyaka has been explained by Dviveda Gan̄ga (of Gujarát); and in the Káṇva recension by Śaṃkara, to whose commentary a number of other works by his pupils, &c., attach themselves.

Word Forms

• recensions

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reviewage, reviewal, review, survey, reckoning, account.

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