n. 1. A critical revision of a text incorporating the most plausible elements found in varying sources. 2. A text so revised. [Latin recēnsiō, recēnsiōn-, a reviewing, from recēnsēre, to review : re-, re- + cēnsēre, to estimate; see kens- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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