critical apparatus

British

noun

Also called: apparatus criticus. the variant readings, footnotes, etc found in a scholarly work or a critical edition of a text

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There's the fourth leg, which is half-born: a cultivated critical apparatus which is separate from the commercial machine.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2018

Some art demands it, no matter how dull or corrupt the critical apparatus of the viewer.

From The New Yorker • May 28, 2017

Something feels not quite right about subjecting Don DeLillo to the ordinary critical apparatus.

From New York Times • May 2, 2016

Though the book labours under a critical apparatus that might have been thought de trop if the subject had been Wittgenstein, it is not helpful in telling us about, for example, Taylor's father.

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2012

New Testament manuscript studies: the materials and the making of a critical apparatus.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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