Recensional

//ɹɪˈsɛnʃənəl// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to or originating in one or more recensions (censuses or editions). especially, not-comparable

    "While the variations for large communities, however, exhibit only a trifling range from recensional epoch to another; those for their several component groups or departments when compared with each other, or each with its correlative issue in different years, become both unsteady and wide […]"

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"While the variations for large communities, however, exhibit only a trifling range from recensional epoch to another; those for their several component groups or departments when compared with each other, or each with its correlative issue in different years, become both unsteady and wide […]"

Etymology

From recension + -al.

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