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

Always anxious, first, to investigate the true sense of the scripture which he has selected for the foundation of his essay, some of his elucidations, without any display of critical apparatus, are singularly happy.

From The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various

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