variorum
Americanadjective
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containing different versions of the text by various editors.
a variorum edition of Shakespeare.
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containing many notes and commentaries by a number of scholars or critics.
a variorum text of Cicero.
noun
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of variorum
1720–30; short for Latin ēditiō cum notīs variōrum edition with the notes of various persons
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Certainly there have been closer examinations of Shakespeare's "motiveless malignity" and comic imagery; there are variorum editions that more thoroughly note corruptions of the text from the First Folio onward.
From Time Magazine Archive
The text, which Williams says is drawn from the "Oxford variorum edition of 1825", seems in general to be a reprint of the Heinsius-Burman vulgate with some readings drawn from Merkel's first edition.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
Of these editions the most important was the 1727 variorum edition of Burman already referred to.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
Shakspeare had not then appeared in a proper variorum edition.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
After twenty years of this sort of piecemeal revision, a variorum edition of the Prayer Book would be a requisite of every well furnished pew.
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington
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