Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Edit \Ed"it\, 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.

         Philosophical treatises which have never been edited.
                                                  --Enfield.

Source : WordNet®

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