2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Edit  \Ed"it\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Edited};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Editing}.]  [F.  ['e]diter,  or  L.  editus  p.  p.  of  edere  to 
  give  out  put  forth,  publish;  e  out  +  dare  to  give  See 
  {Date}  a  point  of  time.] 
  To  superintend  the  publication  of  to  revise  and  prepare  for 
  publication;  to  select,  correct,  arrange,  etc.,  the  matter 
  of  for  publication;  as  to  edit  a  newspaper. 
 
  Philosophical  treatises  which  have  never  been  edited. 
  --Enfield. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  editing 
  n  :  putting  something  (as  a  literary  work)  into  publishable  form 
  [syn:  {redaction}] 

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