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reëdit

reëdit

See also: reedit and re-edit

English

Verb

reëdit (third-person singular simple present reëdits, present participle reëditing, simple past and past participle reëdited)

  1. Alternative spelling of re-edit
    • 1831, Francis Lieber [ed.], Encyclopædia Americana, volume 5, French Literature, page 271
      The profound works of an earlier period have been reëdited (Art de vérifier les Dates, by Allais, and Art de vérifier les Dates depuis l’Année 1770 jusqu’à nos Jours, by Courcelles, 1821), and accompanied by numerous works on French history.
    • 1864, “Review of Miscellaneous Remains from the Commonplace-Book of Richard Whately, D.D., late Archbishop of Dublin, edited by Miss E. J. Whately” in Littell’s Living Age, volume 83, page 527
      Also in a future reëditing of the Commonplace-book (in full), together with a good selection of sentences and bright sayings from his works, we venture to request the omission of his poetry.
    • 1952, Roger Ambrose Pack, The Greek and Latin Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (University of Michigan Press), page 24
      B. Snell, Hermes, Einzelsehr, 5 (1937), 1–68, reëdits the text.
    • 1970, Yakov Malkiel [ed.], Romance Philology (University of California Press), volume 24, page 130
      The framework of S.’s study, I repeat, encouraged him to reëdit Ry, also to reprint Voigt’s 1898 ed. of Adalbert’s Homily, and to provide a most convenient four-part — Types C, A, Ct, and B2 — redaction of the 11th-c. Latin prose Vita (106–153).