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recensional en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ɹɪˈsɛnʃənəl/
  • /ɹɪˈsɛnt͡ʃənəl/

Etymology

From recension + -al.

Meanings

  1. (especially, not-comparable) Relating to or originating in one or more recensions (censuses or editions).
    • While the variations for large communities, however, exhibit only a trifling range from recensional epoch to another; those for their several component groups or departments when compared with each other, or each with its correlative issue in different years, become both unsteady and wide […] 1862 September 9, J. Whitehead, M.D., “Notes on Causes of Mortality”, in The Medical Times and Gazette, volume 2 for 1862, London: John Churchill, page 246:
    • 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. 1889, George Coulson Workman, “The Variations—Transpositions”, in The Text of Jeremiah; or, A Critical Investigation of the Greek and Hebrew […] , Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, →OCLC, page 131:
    • 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. 2020, Chaim Milikowsky, “7.6 Philological practices: Hebrew”, in Philipp Roelli, editor, Handbook of Stemmatology: History, Methodology, Digital Approaches, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 494: