editional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more editional
form: most editional
Etymology: From edition + -al.
Senses: examples: 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.
ref: 1908, William Richard Harris, By Path and Trail, page 96:
text: Commencing with the April 10 number this department will be arranged to include all advertising of Ford car accessories, equipment and supplies, which will afford to those whose advertisements shall appear preferred position, either facing or beside editional matter.
ref: 1915 March 25, “Ford Car Section”, in Automobile Journal, volume 39, number 4, page 65:
text: As a result of its well-known covers– each depicting a scene of small-town or rural family life–and its editional content, the magazine had become a mirror of day-to-day living in America.
ref: 1974, Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber, The Power to Inform, page 3:
text: Using a narrower focus (the reception of the oeuvre of just two writers, Il'ia Il'f and Evgenii Petrov, who wrote as a team), the approach is literary and the perspective unusual, the editional segments at issue are not so much the texts themselves as their accompanying materials, or peritexts.
ref: 2011, Miranda Beaven Remnek, Miranda Remnek, The Space of the Book, page 252:
glosses: Pertaining to edited and published text.
examples: text: Although they seemed unable to determine editional policy or curb intellectual independence.
ref: 1996, C. Bloom, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory, page 113:
text: Perhaps the most important aspect of Nature is the result of its editional policy and practice— the trust that people place in the scientific research which is reported.
ref: 1998, Seiji Sato, The Publisher in Changing Markets, page 100:
text: He is also an editional board member of the prestigious Asian Homoeopathic Journal.
ref: 2014, Dr. Rajeev Sharma, Massage For Good Health:
glosses: Editorial; pertaining to the editing of a publication.
examples: text: The various volumes, owing to the irregular way in which they had appeared originally, could not be reduced to any common editional term.
ref: 1855, John William Wallace, The Reporters, chronologically arranged:
text: As the "Prints/Multiples" exhibition was being planned, it was presumed that its expository basis would be revealed by the works of two groups of artists who, although they both use "editional" media, apparently have differenet attitudes toward them—attitudes perhaps typified by those of Nesch and Munch.
ref: 1969, Henry Art Gallery, Prints/multiples: An Exhibition of Original Prints and Multiples, page 7:
text: Sales of publications are made on a full-cost-recovery basis, including costs of administration, and, with editional runs being necessarily small for such specialized material, prices are relatively high.
ref: 1984, Allen Kent, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, volume 37, page 232:
glosses: Pertaining to editions, versions, and/or copies.
Derived terms: editionalise
editionalize