Recension definition

rĭ-sĕnshən
A critical revision of a text incorporating the most plausible elements found in varying sources.
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A revising of a text on the basis of a critical examination of sources.
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A text so revised.
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A revised text so produced.
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A text established by critical revision.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
recension
Plural:
recensions

Origin of recension

  • Latin recēnsiō recēnsiōn- a reviewing from recēnsēre to review re- re- cēnsēre to estimate kens- in Indo-European roots

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

  • From Latin recÄ“nsiō (“review"), from recÄ“nseō (“review"), from re- + cÄ“nseō (“give an opinion").

    From Wiktionary

Recension Sentence Examples

  • In the last-mentioned work he seeks to prove that the St Petersburg Codex, for so many years accepted as the genuine text of the Babylonian school, is in reality a Palestinian text carefully altered so as to render it conformable to the Babylonian recension.

  • Thus he was for two years together at Caesarea in Cappadocia, where he was overtaken by the Maximinian persecution; here he worked at his recension of the Bible.

  • Origen worked also at the text of the New Testament, although he produced no recension of his own.

  • A recension of this code of Recceswinth was made in 681 by King Erwig (680-687), and is known as the Lex Wisigothorum renovata; and, finally, some additamenta were made by Egica (687-702).

  • Aratus carried out a recension of the Odyssey, and Berossus composed a Babylonian history in Greek; under Antiochus III.

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