apparatus criticus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of apparatus criticus
1860–65; < New Latin: critical apparatus
Example Sentences
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Thus the book became a valuable apparatus criticus for the Danish student.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
Before beginning the work Grundtvig had every available version, whether in public or private hands, at his disposal, so that he had a magnificent apparatus criticus.
From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Nora Kershaw
The apparatus criticus is most fully described in O. Keller’s preface to vol. i. of the 2nd ed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
It would be to their advantage to spare themselves this labour, and to dispense with all annotation which does not belong to the "apparatus criticus" proper.
From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry
Cited by Bishop Wordsworth as W, and incorporated by him into his apparatus criticus as furnishing a fair specimen of the current mediaeval text.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
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