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version, n.|ˈvɜːʃən, ˈvəʒən|
[a. F. version (= It. versione, Sp. version, Pg. versão), or ad. L. versiōn-, versio, noun of action from vertĕre to turn.]
1. a. A rendering of some text or work, or of a single word, passage, etc., from one language into another; a translation; also (rarely), the action or process of translating.
Freq. with adjs. denoting the language into which the translation is made.
1582N.T. (Rhemish) Pref. b ij, Trusting that it may giue occasion to you..to lay away at lest such their impure versions as hitherto you haue ben forced to occupie. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 435, I vtterly seclude al their opinions, which translate this word Arabian wolues, for the Hæbrew notes cannot admit such a version or exposition. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 61 Things translated into another tongue lose of their primative vigor and strength, unless a paraphrasticall version be permitted. 1682Grew Anat. Plants Pref., The Second Lecture..is also translated into French, by Mons. Mesmin,..whose Version is very well approved by those who are competent Judges. 1718Prior Poems Several Occas. Pref., His excellent Version of the Carmen Seculare. 1794Burke Pref. to Brissot's Addr. Constit. Wks. VII. 327 The translator has only to say for himself, that he has found some difficulty in this version. c1806H. K. White Rem. Eng. Poets Remains (1825) 156 None of our better versions have been able to preserve the original graces of these verses [of Ps. xviii]. 1841Elphinstone Hist. India I. iii. vi. 293 Such of those literal versions as we possess in English (which are mostly from the ‘Rámáyana’). 1874Green Short Hist. viii. §1. 448 The English version of the Bible remains the noblest example of the English tongue.
b. Sc. A translation from English into Latin prose done as a school or university exercise; a piece of English prose set for translation into Latin.
1711Burgh Rec. Aberdeen (1872) II. 345 Ther proficiency in themms, versions, poeticall composurs, and orations. c1850Hurry in Walker Bards Bon-Accord (1886) 629 When we our versions wrote, nae Lexicon had we To help us.
2. a. The particular form of a statement, account, report, etc., given by one person or party; an account resting upon limited authority or embodying a particular point of view.
1788in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1861) II. 93 The version which we received here respecting the famous Scarborough cruise. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 214 The Whig version of the story was that the old robber Mac Ian had laid an ambuscade for the soldiers... The Jacobite version..appeared in the Paris Gazette of the seventh of April. 1879Froude Cæsar xi. 140 The version generally received of what he actually did say. 1907Verney Mem. II. 154 Sir Roger sends his version of the reconciliation between Monk and the City.
b. A special form or variant of something.
1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. viii. 345 To see Christianity freed from the bonds of every peculiar version. 1858Masson Milton (1859) I. 679 In the cause of true religion, or of the Scottish version of it. 1908Sir H. Maxwell Guide Holyrood 20 This painting is a larger version of one at Windsor Castle.
†3.
a. A turning about; a change of direction. Obs.
1625Bacon Ess., Viciss. of Things (Arb.) 571 What Kinde of Comet, for Magnitude, Colour, Version of the Beames,..or Lasting, produceth what Kinde of Effects. 1706Congreve Disc. Pindaric Ode A j b, The first was call'd the Strophé, from the Version or circular Motion of the Singers in that Stanza from the Right Hand to the Left.
b. Obstetr. The operation of manually turning the child so as to facilitate delivery.
1853J. Y. Simpson Obstet. Path. & Pract. 17, I now found an obstruction to the complete version of the infant. 1889Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. VII. 628/2 The term version is applied to all operations by which the long axis of the child is changed in its relation to the long axis of the uterus.
†4. Conversion, transformation. Obs.
1626Bacon Sylva §27 Springs, which the Ancients thought..to be made by the Version of Aire into Water. 1626― New Atl., Magn. Nat. g iij, Version of bodies into other Bodies. 1666Boyle Orig. Forms & Qual. 407 As to the version of Water into Earth, by a seemingly slight Operation.
Hence ˈversion v. trans., to translate. ˈversional a., pertaining to a version or translation. ˈversioner, ˈversionist, one who produces a version; a translator. ˈversionize v. trans., to render into another tongue, to translate.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Arianism 19 Biddle's brief Scripture-Catechism was caus'd to be *version'd into Latin. 1884Advance (Chicago) 3 Jan., At the time the Scriptures had been versioned into the King James version.
1871Independent (N.Y.) 23 Mar. (Cent.), All the suggestions for emendations [of the Bible], whether textual or *versional. 1910Expositor Nov. 409 The versional variants rest on divergent Hebrew texts.
c1806in H. K. White's Rem. (1825) 159 Our *versioner, by adding an s to it, has rendered them both plurals.
1782Elphinstone tr. Martial Pref. p. iv, His [sc. Martial's] Editor and *Versionist. 1811R. Dixon Interpr. Sixty-eighth Ps. 46 note, All the ancient versionists seem to have thought, that the valley in this verse received its name [etc.]. 1861I. Taylor Spir. Hebr. Poetry 338 Serviceable as Jewish versionists..are, it was not their function to concern themselves with the soul..of the national literature.
1874H. Coppée Eng. Lit. (ed. 3) 52 Wace's poem..was soon again..to be *versionized into English.
▸ version v. (trans.) to make different versions of; to create a new version of.
1949Lima (Ohio) News 8 May 33/1 (advt.) *Versioned two ways to leave the open vs. closed issue up to you, with a flash of open toe and heel or all enclosed. 1988Marketing (Nexis) 3 Nov. Ideas are sourced from the US and ‘versioned’ in each country. 2001Wire June 16/3 Austrian glitchmeister Christian Fennesz has versioned another laptop tribute to the close-harmony heroes. |