Variorum Definition

vârē-ôrəm, văr-
noun
An edition or text, as of a literary work, containing notes by various editors, scholars, etc.
Webster's New World
An edition of a work containing variant versions of the text.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • variorum edition
adjective
Of such an edition or text.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Variorum

Noun

Singular:
variorum
Plural:
variora, variorums

Origin of Variorum

  • From Latin (ēditiō cum notīs) variōrum (edition with the notes) of various persons genitive pl. of varius various

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Variorum Sentence Examples

  • In appearance and careful editing it leaves nothing to desire, containing the entire works, a lexicon, full bibliographical information, and an album of illustrations of the poet's places of residence, his arms, some title-pages of his plays, facsimiles of his writings, &c. Nothing is wanting but variorum comments, which Lefevre's edition supplies.

  • The work was discovered by Poggio, who copied the original manuscript Editio princeps (books 14-26) by Sabinus, 1474; completed by Accursius, 1533; with variorum notes, by Wagner-Erfurdt, 1808; latest edition of text, Gardthausen, 1874-1815.

  • Ball's The Variorum Apocrypha will be found specially useful by those who cannot conveniently consult the Greek.

  • We may find determinate modes of interpretation in the eighteenth-century variorum, if we are not distracted by our modern predisposition to indeterminacy.

  • Such a view of the possibilities or realities of the variorum edition has not however been universal.

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VVAVAR

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