ed1torIal

. [Eng. editor; -ial.] A. As adj.: Of or pertaining to an editor; writ ten by or proceeding from an editor. "Lambin and Heyne seem to have considered it as part of their editorial duty not to leave the subject of orthog raphy wholly unnoticed."- Dr. Parr: British Critic, Feb., 1794. IMG:content-0774.png:[blocks in formation] *e-dit-u-āte, v . t . [Low Lat. ædituatus , pa. par. of ædituor , from Lat. ædituus =a keeper of a temple, a sacristan: ædes a temple, and tue or =to protect.] To protect as sacred. "The devotion whereof could not but move the city, to edituate such a piece of divine office, where so many gods were present by their proxies; where not only the sports themselves, but all the company, were reputed holy.' Greg. Notes on Scripture (1684), p. 49.