Editing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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