recense

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verb

To review; to revise.

OriginLatin recensere →
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Meanings

verbrecense (third-person singular simple present recenses, present participle recensing, simple past and past participle recensed)

present singular third person recenses · participle present recensing · participle past recensed · past recensed

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo review; to revise.

    Pope Sixtus and Clemens at a vast expense had an assembly of learned divines, to recense and adjust the Latin Vulgate

    1716, Richard Bentley, chapter 189, in The Correspondence of Richard Bentley, D.D., page 506

Origin

  1. Latinrecensere
  2. Englishrecense

Borrowed from Latin recensere.

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APA

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