From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[2011]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], perfect passive participle of [la], from [la] + [la].
[en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] [en] To censor , to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.
2. * [en]
3. [en] [en] To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.
4. [en] To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit . [from 19th c.]
5. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1829 |year_published= |author=Robinson Hurst |by= |title=The Monthly
Review |url= |original= |chapter=Memoires de 吴语: Eugène François Vidocq, Chéf
de la Police de Sureté jusq' en 1827; aujourd' hui Proprietaire et Fabriquant
de Papier à St Mandé. |section= |isbn= |edition= |publisher=G. Henderson
|location=London |editor= |volume=12 |page=278 |passage=[...] the account of
his second expedition was carefully REDACTED, [...] }}
1. [en] [en] To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc. [from 19th c.]
2. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1837 |year_published= |author=w:Thomas Carlyle |by= |title=吴语: The
French Revolution: A History
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=DfIsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA162 |original=
|chapter=Mercury de Breze |section=吴语: The third estate |isbn= |edition=
|publisher=w:Charles Scribner's Sons |location=New York |editor=w:Henry Duff
Traill |volume=2 |page=162 |passage=The Oath is REDACTED ; pronounced aloud by
President Bailly, — and indeed in such a sonorous tone, that the cloud of
witnesses, even outdoors, hear it, and bellow response to it. }}
1. [en] [en] To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one. [15th]
2. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=c1475 |year_published=1869 |author= |by=w:Ranulf Higden
|title=Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, Monachi Cestrensis; together with the
English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth
century. |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/AHB1341.0001.001/2739:11
|original= |chapter= |section= |isbn= |edition= |publisher=Longmans, Green,
and Company |location=London |editor=w:Churchill Babington |volume=2 |page=273
|passage=Octauianus Augustus, his successor and nevewe, REDACTE in to oon
monarchy the realmes of alle the worlde. }}
1. [en] [en] To gather or organize works or ideas into a unified whole; to collect, order, or write in a written document or to put into a particular written form. [15th]
2. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=c1475 |year_published=1871 |author= |by=w:Ranulf Higden
|title=Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, Monachi Cestrensis; together with the
English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth
century. |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/AHB1341.0001.001/2953:12
|original= |chapter= |section= |isbn= |edition= |publisher=Longman & Company
|location=London |editor=w:Joseph Rawson Lumby |volume=3 |page=251
|passage=yere, laborede and founde the arte of logike; þe rewles of whom and
causes of þe begynnenge Plato fyndenge encreasede hit moche; but Aristotille
REDACTE hit in an arte. }}
1. [en] To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme. [16th c.]
2. [en] To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person. [17th c.]
3. [en] To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable. [16th]
4. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1595 |year_published=1833 |author=吴语: Robert Pitcairn (antiquary)
|by= |title=Ancient Criminal Trials in Scotland: Comp. from the Original
Records and Mss., with Historical Illustrations
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=msouAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA352 |original=
|chapter= |section=ii |isbn= |edition= |publisher=William Tait
|location=Edinburgh |editor= |volume=1 |page=352 |passage=[...] the grite
penuritie and indigence quhairunto the puir handy-labouraris, and utheris his
hienes subiectis of all esteatis ar REDACTIT be that occasioun, [...] }}
1. [en] To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction. [16th]
2. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1554 |year_published=1855 |author=Dean Thomas Guild, Monk of
Newbattle |by= |title=The Bannatyne Miscellany; Containing Original Papers and
Tracts, Chiefly Relating to the History and Literature of Scotland
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1lQJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA72 |original=
|chapter=Diploma of Thomas, Bishop of Orkney and Zetland, and the Chapter of
Kirkwall, Addressed to Eric King of Norway, Respecting the Genealogy of
William Saint Clair, Earl of Orkney. |section= |isbn= |edition=
|publisher=Ballantyne and Company |location=Edinburgh |editor= |volume=3
|page=72 |passage=[...] the principall mans or manerie of thame lordis Erilis
of Orchadie hes beine syndrie tymis brint and REDACTIT till nocht [...] }}
**** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
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**** Translations
[to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
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[to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the
remainder]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
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**** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:OneLook]
*** Anagrams
- [en]