Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| apostil | (Fr.) a marginal note. |
| apostille | (Fr.) a marginal note. |
| armgaunt | (Shakesp.) with gaunt limbs? but probably an error. |
| athetesis | the rejection of a passage as spurious. |
| athetise | in textual criticism, to reject (a passage) as spurious. |
| athetize | in textual criticism, to reject (a passage) as spurious. |
| beesome | (Shakesp.) supposedly for bisson, blind. |
| bibliotic | relating to bibliotics, the study of documents to determine authenticity. |
| bibliotics | the study of handwriting, documents, and writing materials esp for determining genuineness or authorship. |
| bibliotist | one who practises bibliotics, the study of handwriting, documents, and writing materials. |
| clavis | (Lat.) a key; hence a clue or aid in solving problems. |
| codex | (Lat.) a book; a manuscript. |
| colophon | an inscription at the end of a book (particularly in the 15th and 16th centuries) giving details of publication, or a publisher's logo. |
| conflation | a combining or blending of two or more versions of a text. |
| diorthosis | a critical revision of a text; any correction or adjustment. |
| diorthotic | relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective. |
| diplomatics | the science of deciphering ancient writings and texts. |
| ditto | to repeat that which has been said before. |
| dittographic | relating to dittography, the unintentional repetition of letters in print. |
| dittography | the unintentional repetition of letters in print. |
| eisegesis | the interpretation of a text (as of the Bbible) by reading into it one's own ideas. |
| ellipsis | a figure of syntax by which a word or words are left out and merely implied. |
| emendation | correction, usually of a text. |
| emendator | one who emends or critically edits. |
| emendatory | pertaining to emendation; corrective. |
| emender | one who emends. |
| endnote | a note placed at the end of a piece of text. |
| entrold | (Spenser) a past participle of obscure meaning, possibly enrolled. |
| exegesis | an exposition, esp an explanation or critical interpretation of a text. |
| exegetical | pertaining to exegesis, expository. |
| exegetically | (Adv.) EXEGETICAL, pertaining to exegesis, expository. |
| fistnote | part of a text to which attention is drawn by an index mark. |
| footnote | a note of reference or comment at the foot of a page; something relatively unimportant; (verb) to supply with a footnote or footnotes. |
| frutify | (Shakesp.) Launcelot Gobbo's blunder for notify. |
| goujeers | an editor's spurious improvement on goodyear, veneral disease. |
| guideword | a word at the top of a dictionary page indicating the first word on the page. |
| hapax | (Greek) a word that occurs only once. |
| haplography | the accidental omission of letters, words or lines in copying. |
| holograph | a text written entirely in its author's handwriting; (verb) to write a text in one's own handwriting. |
| holographic | relating to holographs. |
| holographically | (Adv.) HOLOGRAPHIC, relating to holographs. |
| ibidem | (Lat.) in the same place. |
| inedited | not edited. |
| infra | (Lat.) below; later in a text. |
| intertext | a text between texts. |
| intertextual | of or like an intertext. |
| intertextually | (Adv.) INTERTEXTUAL, of or like an intertext. |
| introld | (Spenser) a past participle of obscure meaning, possibly enrolled. |
| lection | a variant reading of a passage in a particular copy or edition of a text. |
| lemmatise | to organise (words in a text) so that inflected and variant forms are grouped under the appropriate lemma. |
| lemmatize | to organise (words in a text) so that inflected and variant forms are grouped under the appropriate lemma. |
| lipography | the accidental omission of a letter or syllable. |
| logotype | a piece of type representing a word or several letters cast in one piece. |
| logotypy | the use of logotypes. |
| marginalia | marginal notes. |
| opisthograph | a manuscript or slab inscribed on both back and front. |
| overedit | to edit excessively. |
| palimpsest | writing material (as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times. |
| pannelled | (Shakesp.) conjectured to be a misprint for spanielled. |
| paragraph | a distinct part of a discourse or writing marked by a sign or indentation; (verb) to split up into paragraphs. |
| paralipomenon | a thing added as a supplement to a main text. |
| perispomenon | having a circumflex accent on the final syllable. |
| pioned | (Shakesp.) perhaps trenched, perhaps overgrown with wild orchids. |
| plaintext | text that is not encrypted in any way. |
| pollusion | (Shakesp.) blunder for allusion. |
| postil | a marginal note; a commentary; (verb) to gloss. |
| postillate | to explain by marginal notes. |
| postillation | the act of postillating, glossing a text. |
| postillator | one who postillates, explains by marginal notes. |
| preedit | to edit in advance. |
| prenzie | (Shakesp.) a word of unknown meaning, possibly a misprint for princely. No -S. |
| proball | (Shakesp.) supposedly means plausible. |
| recense | to revise critically. |
| recto | (Lat.) a right-hand page; the front of a printed or manuscript page. |
| redact | to make ready for publication; to edit or revise. |
| ribaudred | (Shakesp.) an obscure word, perhaps ribaud-rid, ridden by a ribald. |
| scholion | (Greek) a marginal annotation; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian. |
| scholium | (Greek) a marginal annotation; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian. |
| shoutline | a short line of text, usually printed in bold type, drawing attention to a major selling point in an advertisement. |
| sidebar | a piece of text in a margin. |
| sidenote | a note on the side. |
| slughorn | (Browning) an old form of slogan, taken by Chatterton and then Browning to be a kind of clarion. |
| slughorne | (Browning) an old form of slogan, taken by Chatterton and then Browning to be a kind of clarion. |
| stemma | (Greek) a diagram representing a reconstruction of the interrelationships between surviving witnesses in the (esp manuscript) tradition of a text. |
| stemmatic | relating to a stemma, a diagram representing a reconstruction of the interrelationships between surviving witnesses in the (esp manuscript) tradition of a text. |
| stemmatous | of or like a stemma. |
| stet | (Lat.) to restore after marking for deletion. |
| stirre | (Shakesp.) prob. a misprint for sperre. |
| subtext | an underlying theme, esp in literature. |
| suffigance | (Shakesp.) Dogberry's blunder for suffisance. |
| supra | (Lat.) above; earlier in a text. |
| tetrapla | (Greek) an edition of four parallel texts, esp Origen's of the Old Testament. |
| text | the main body of a written or printed work; (verb) to send a text message. |
| textless | without text. |
| textual | pertaining to a text. |
| textualist | a person learned in, or a strict adherer to, the text, esp of the Bible. |
| textually | (Adv.) TEXTUAL, pertaining to a text. |
| unedited | not edited. |
| urtext | (Ger.) the original or earliest version of a text, such as a musical composition or literary work. |
| variorum | (Lat.) an edition of a text that includes the notes of earlier scholars or editors. |
| vulgate | an accepted text. |
| wanion | (Shakesp.) a word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune. |