recensional
/ɹɪˈsɛnʃənəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to or originating in one or more recensions (censuses or editions).
Example Sentences
- "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 […]"
- "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."
Etymology
From recension + -al.