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Edit

verb

(past & past part. edited; pres. part. editing)

Prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting. Synonym: redact. "She edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"

Supervise the publication of.

Cut and assemble the components of. Synonyms: cut, edit out. "Cut recording tape"

Cut or eliminate. Synonyms: blue-pencil, delete.

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... for Russian literature. She herself wrote or collaborated in plays, whose performances the Holy Synod had to attend—and applaud—in a body. She also published translations, pamphlets, books for her grandchildren, a history of Russia to the fourteenth century, and even helped to edit a newspaper. Unlike Frederick, she did not despise the language of her country. She put her court to school, and at the "Hermitage" so many lines of Russian were learned every day. But Radistchev said: "Fear and silence reign round Czarkoe-Sielo. ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various

... (incidentally he writes poetry and helps to edit a magazine among other things) apologises for the ...

— Greenwich Village • Anna Alice Chapin

... Senora de la Merced is the patroness of the Order of Mercy; and in this character she often holds in her hand small tablets bearing the badge of the Order. (Legends of the Monastic Orders, 2d edit.) ...

— Legends of the Madonna • Mrs. Jameson

... saw his surmise changed to certainty; the text was indeed that of the original Septuagint without the disfiguring additions inserted by Origen. The late Prof. Lagarde of Goettingen then applied for, and received, permission to edit this precious find; but owing to the desire conceived later on by Pope Leo XIII. that an undertaking of such importance should be carried out by an ecclesiastic of the Roman Catholic Church, Lagarde's ...

— The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur • Emile Joseph Dillon

... to be overcome in order to act in consonance with the wishes of his Majesty, and promises that "effectual care shall be taken that none of the officers who are come hither, suffer on this account" (Letter, pp. 26-27, vol. ii., Dublin, edit. 1770). Swift uses the matter for his own purposes and ironically welcomes this chance for the depopulation of Ireland. "When our island is a desert, we will send all our raw material to England, and receive from her all our manufactured ...

— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. VII - Historical and Political Tracts--Irish • Jonathan Swift

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