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noun

Recension n.

The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration.

Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.

The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version.

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Etymology of 'Recension'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Recension" Quotes from Famous Books

... in which the real presence was maintained; this which already existed in the first edition they united with the view of the second. As formerly in the Augsburg confession in Germany, so in England at the last recension of the Common Prayer-book an attempt was made to keep as near as possible to the traditional system. For the Queen this had also a political value: when Philip II sent her a warning, she explained ...

— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke

... to obtain the recension of the punitive decrees of the Venetian Council, but they proved abortive, and nothing could be done in Venice for Bianca and Pietro. In Florence Don Francesco could do as he willed. His father, Cosimo, had already made over to him much ...

— The Tragedies of the Medici • Edgcumbe Staley