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recensional

adj
/ɹɪˈsɛnʃənəl/

Etymology

From recension + -al.

  1. derived from *ḱn̥seh₁-✻
  2. derived from *wre✻
  3. derived from recēnsiō
  4. formed as recensional — “recension + -al”

Definitions

  1. Relating to or originating in one or more recensions (censuses or editions).

    • The Greek position of "the priests," chaps. xxvii. 16; xxviii. 5; is evidently recensional, as the two passages are so similar and stand so near to each other.
    • The recensional variation found in some tractates suggests the possibility that at an early stage of the – oral (?) – transmission there was no urtext, or that passages not stemming from the urtext entered into the text at this time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for recensional. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA