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redact

[ri-dakt]
verb (used with object)
  1. to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
  2. to draw up or frame (a statement, proclamation, etc.).
  3. to hide or remove (confidential parts of a text) before publication or distribution, or to examine (a text) for this purpose: The account number has been redacted from the top of the statement.
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Origin of redact

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin redāctus (past participle of redigere to lead back), equivalent to red- red- + āctus, past participle of agere to lead; see act
Related formsre·dac·tion, nounre·dac·tion·al, adjectivere·dac·tor, nounun·re·dact·ed, adjective
Can be confusedredact revise
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Historical Examples

  • Not the original Homer, but some later matcher and patcher, imitator or redactor.

    Homer's Odyssey

    Denton J. Snider

  • Still more welcome is the assignment of vi, 45-viii, 27, to the redactor.

  • Verse 19 is probably the work of the redactor (RP) who inserted the song.

  • The obvious propriety of such a relationship was bound sooner or later to strike the imagination of some redactor.

British Dictionary definitions for redactor

redact

verb (tr)
  1. to compose or draft (an edict, proclamation, etc)
  2. to put (a literary work, etc) into appropriate form for publication; edit
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Derived Formsredaction, nounredactional, adjectiveredactor, noun

Word Origin

C15: from Latin redigere to bring back, from red- re- + agere to drive
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Word Origin and History for redactor

redact

v.

early 15c., "bring into organized form," from Latin redactus, past participle of redigere "to drive back, force back; bring back; collect, call in; bring down, reduce," from re- "back, again" (see re-) + agere "to drive" (see act (n.)). Specific meaning "arrange, edit" is from 1851.

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