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variorum, n. (a.)|vɛərɪˈɔərəm|
[L., gen. pl. masc. of varius various a., in the phrase editio cum notis variorum (see def.).]
1. a. An edition, esp. of the complete works of a classical author, containing the notes of various commentators or editors. Also in the full phrase variorum edition.
1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., A set of Dutch Variorums. Ibid., The Variorums, for the generality, are the best Editions. 1824Scott Let. to Constable 6 Jan., In the shape of these inimitable Variorums, who knows what new ideas the Classics may suggest? 1826Miss Mitford Village ii. (1863) 268, I should like to see a variorum edition of our Pizarro. 1870Lowell Among My Bks. Ser. i. 162 The serious notes of a variorum edition of Shakespeare.
b. attrib., as variorum classic, variorum comment, or with the name of the author.
a1763Byrom Misc. Poems (1773) II. 333 The variorum Comments. 1802Dibdin Edit. Classics 11 The second edition [of Claudian]..is esteemed one of the scarcest of the Variorum Classics. 1822Scott Nigel Introd. Epist., The Prolegomena of the Variorum Shakspeare.
c. As adj. in the sense ‘obtained or collected from various books or sources’. Also applied to a single reading.
1850N. & Q. 19 Oct. 325 A very curious variorum reading. 1873(title) Osorio. A tragedy as originally written in 1797 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Now first printed from a copy recently discovered by the publisher with the variorum readings of ‘Remorse’ and a monograph on the history of the play in its earlier and later form by the author of ‘Tennysoniana’. 1883American VII. 170 Outlines of the Chief Political Changes in the History of the World, Arranged by Centuries, with Variorum Illustrations. 1887Athenæum 13 Aug. 210/3 In his variorum readings of the name from old records he has obviously misread t for c in several instances.
d. Used, chiefly attrib., to denote an edition, usu. of an author's complete works, containing variant readings from manuscripts or earlier editions.
This use is deplored by some scholars.
1955Times 11 June 9/3 How delighted he [sc. Johnson] would have been to have known of the Yale University project for a really complete variorum edition of his works. 1957(title) The variorum edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats. 1964Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Oct. 979/4 The variorum edition of Emily Dickinson..(meaning, it appears, an edition containing variant readings). The..use of the term is incorrect. 1980N.Y. Times 26 July ii. 22 The book, a variorum, records every usable fact and opinion about the play—every significant textual variant, every influential interpretation, [etc.]. 1983P. G. Ruggiers in Beadle & Griffiths St. John's College Cambridge MS. L.1. p. xiii, Having then presented these two essential manuscripts, consideration was given by the Variorum editors [sc. the editors of the Variorum Chaucer] to providing other materials essential to the understanding of an evolving Chaucer text.
2. fig. Variation; a varying or changing scene. Sc.
177.Skinner Tullochgorum Wks. 1809 III. 136 Dull Italian lays,..They're dowf and dowie at the best, Wi' a' their variorum. 1785Burns Jolly Beggars 8th Air, Life is all a variorum, We regard not how it goes. 1876J. Smith Archie & Bess 95 It's a lang time since I heard ye sing't and it'll aye be a variorum. 1901R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip 11 They widna let the Paraphrases be sung in the kirk, or tunes wi' variorum about them. 1930in Sc. Nat. Dict. (1974) IX. 520/2 A'm guid at readin' write gin it has nane o' your variorums and whirligigs. |