variorum

/vair-ee-awr-uhm, -ohr-/US // ˌvɛər iˈɔr əm, -ˈoʊr- //UK // (ˌvɛərɪˈɔːrəm) //

变体,变种人,变种,变异体

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

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- : containing different versions of the text by various editors: a variorum edition of Shakespeare.
- : containing many notes and commentaries by a number of scholars or critics: a variorum text of Cicero.

n.名词 noun

Boswell's Malone, the "third variorum" edition, is generally considered the best.
It occurs in several later miscellanies; and in the variorum translation of Anacreon published at Oxford in 1683.
Unwed, unfancied, ware of wiles, they fingerponder nightly each his variorum edition of The Taming of the Shrew.
The affray was repeatedly mentioned in Parliament, where the changes rung upon it produced quite a variorum edition of horrors.
This edition, now in progress, and Malone's Variorum edition of 1821, are the most valuable in furnishing information.