lacunose

comparative more lacunose · superlative most lacunose · alternative lacunous

1. Full of gaps or lacunae.

   Thus the translation attempts to render the lacunose text as accurately as possible.

   1995, Iain Gardner, “Comments on the Translation”, in The Kephalaia of the Teacher: The Edited Coptic Manichaean Texts in Translation with Commentary, E.J. Brill, page xxxvii

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   17. Dio, 79(78).15–16 is sadly lacunose, but it is clear that Dio describes the reception by the Senate of letters from Macrinus, which Macrinus signed using the titles of office: [...]

   2012, Clifford Ando, Imperial Rome AD 193 to 284: The Critical Century (The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome), 22 George Square, Edinburgh EH89LF: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 64

   Synonyms: lacunate, lacunous

2. biologyHaving large, deep depressions; pitted; having the surface covered with small cavities.