Editional

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of editorial.

    "Public opinions are always provoked by the action and the words of the leader, and the editionals [editorials] of the paper."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to edited and published text.

    "Some day, it is to be hoped, the Mexican government following the example of the Canadian parliament, which in 1858 printed the "Relations of the Jesuits" in Canada, will give the world in editional form the letters of the Jesuits in Mexico and Lower California."

  2. 2
    Editorial; pertaining to the editing of a publication.

    "Although they seemed unable to determine editional policy or curb intellectual independence."

  3. 3
    Pertaining to editions, versions, and/or copies.

    "The various volumes, owing to the irregular way in which they had appeared originally, could not be reduced to any common editional term."

Example

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"Some day, it is to be hoped, the Mexican government following the example of the Canadian parliament, which in 1858 printed the "Relations of the Jesuits" in Canada, will give the world in editional form the letters of the Jesuits in Mexico and Lower California."

Etymology

From edition + -al.

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