recension

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And new rules or the recension of old ones can be delayed by litigation, which always starts at lower courts and takes a while before it bubbles up to the Supreme Court.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2016

The trouble began with his recension of Swan Lake, which was silly and eccentric and, worst of all, skewed to provide a fat role for the aging, painfully stiff company director.

From Time Magazine Archive

The swan as predator is also the inspiration for Matthew Bourne, 37, a young British choreographer, whose radical recension of the ballet classic Swan Lake opens this week in Los Angeles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Schliemann, Dr. Lightfoot states, "says that 'the external testimonies oblige him to recognize a genuine substratum,' though he is not satisfied with either existing recension."

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard

Pentateuch, a recension of the Hebrew Pentateuch, in use amongst the Samaritans, and accepted by them as alone canonical.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various