Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Recension \Re*cen"sion\, n. [L. recensio: cf. F. recension.]
   1. The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination;
      enumeration. --Barrow.

   2. Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient
      author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.

   3. The result of such a work; a text established by critical
      revision; an edited version.