单词 | variorum |
释义 | variorumn.adj. 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. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > edition > [noun] > variorum edition variorum1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A Set of Dutch Variorums. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Variorums, for the generality, are the best Editions. 1824 W. Scott Let. 6 Jan. (1935) VIII. 148 In the shape of the inimitable Variorums. Who knows what new ideas the Classics may suggest? 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 39 I should like to see a variorum edition of our Pizarro. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 1st Ser. 162 The serious notes of a variorum edition of Shakespeare. b. attributive, as variorum classic, variorum comment, or with the name of the author. ΚΠ a1763 J. Byrom Misc. Poems (1773) II. 333 The variorum Comments. 1802 T. F. Dibdin Introd. Knowl. Rare Ed. Classics 11 The second edition [of Claudian]..is esteemed one of the scarcest of the Variorum Classics. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. Introd. Ep. p. xxxi 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [adjective] > from different source variorum1850 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [adjective] > compiled variorum1883 compiled1886 1850 Notes & Queries 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’. 1883 American 7 170 Outlines of the Chief Political Changes in the History of the World, Arranged by Centuries, with Variorum Illustrations. 1887 Athenæum 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 attributive, to denote an edition, usually of an author's complete works, containing variant readings from manuscripts or earlier editions.This use is deplored by some scholars. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > edition > [noun] > collation collation1699 variorum1955 1955 Times 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. 1964 Times 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. 1980 N.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.]. 1983 P. 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. figurative. Variation; a varying or changing scene. Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > [noun] > change within limits, variation, or modification variation1502 diversification1603 flexion1603 divisiona1616 amendment1653 variating1653 sophistication1664 modulation1674 vacillation1769 modification1775 variorum1776 modifyinga1853 tropicalization1893 mod1943 1776 J. Skinner in Weekly Mag. (Edinb.) 2 May 177/2 Dull Italian lays,..They're douff and dowie at the best, Wi' a' their variorum. ?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 208 Life is all a variorum, We regard not how it goes. 1876 J. Smith Archie & Bess 95 It's a lang time since I heard ye sing't and it'll aye be a variorum. 1901 R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip Eighty Years Ago 11 They widna let the Paraphrases be sung in the kirk, or tunes wi' variorum about them. 1930 in Sc. National Dict. (1974) IX. 520/2 A'm guid at readin' write gin it has nane o' your variorums and whirligigs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1728 |
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