recensional
/ɹɪˈsɛnʃənəl/
recensional adjective: relating to or originating in one or more recensions (censuses or editions).
Adjective
recensional (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
Origin of recensional
From recension + -al.
Questions about recensional
- What does recensional mean?
- Recensional means relating to or originating in one or more recensions (censuses or editions).
- What part of speech is recensional?
- Recensional is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce recensional?
- Recensional is pronounced /ɹɪˈsɛnʃənəl/.
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