apparatus criticus

[ ap-uh-rat-uhs krit-i-kuhs, -rey-tuhs; Latin ahp-pah-rah-toos krit-i-koos ]

noun

1. supplementary information, as variant readings, added to a text to provide material for study or criticism.

apparatus criticus

/ ˈkrɪtɪkəs /

noun

1. textual notes, list of variant readings, etc, relating to a document, esp in a scholarly edition of a text

Word History and Origins

Origin of apparatus criticus¹

1860–65; < New Latin: critical apparatus

Word History and Origins

Origin of apparatus criticus¹

Latin: critical apparatus

Example Sentences

Thus the book became a valuable apparatus criticus for the Danish student.

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These lines of research have been described in the preceding section on the apparatus criticus.

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These two scenes of facts, give us what may be called our preliminary apparatus criticus.

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It corrects details and adds a mass of apparatus criticus equal in bulk to the whole original work, but supplies no new ideas.

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The apparatus criticus was a triumph of New Testament scholarship.

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