Definition of "variorum" []

• An edition of the works of an author with notes by various scholars or editors. (noun)
• An edition containing various versions of a text. (noun)
• Of or relating to a variorum edition or text. (adjective)

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• "This, right here, with my variorum, is The End. Baby bird grown up, fled the nest, gone."
• "It was considered imperative to correct Cotton's translation by a careful collation with the 'variorum' edition of the original, Paris, 1854,"
• "[This is translated freely from that prefixed to the 'variorum' Paris edition, 1854, 4 vols. 8vo."