editing

editing
    n 1: putting something (as a literary work or a legislative
         bill) into acceptable form [syn: {editing}, {redaction}]
    

Edit \Ed"it\ ([e^]d"[i^]t), 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.
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         Philosophical treatises which have never been edited.
                                                  --Enfield.
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