apparatus criticus

[ ap-uh-rat-uhs krit-i-kuhs, -rey-tuhs; Latin ahp-pah-rah-toos krit-i-koos ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

supplementary information, as variant readings, added to a text to provide material for study or criticism.

apparatus criticus

/ ˈkrɪtɪkəs /

textual notes, list of variant readings, etc, relating to a document, esp in a scholarly edition of a text

1860–65; < New Latin: critical apparatus

Latin: critical apparatus

Thus the book became a valuable apparatus criticus for the Danish student.

These lines of research have been described in the preceding section on the apparatus criticus.

These two scenes of facts, give us what may be called our preliminary apparatus criticus.

It corrects details and adds a mass of apparatus criticus equal in bulk to the whole original work, but supplies no new ideas.

The apparatus criticus was a triumph of New Testament scholarship.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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