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Stemmatic

Meaning

As an adjective, "stemmatic" refers to something relating to or characterized by a stemma, which is a visual representation of the relationships between manuscript copies of a text. As a noun, it can also refer to a specific method or theory used in textual criticism to determine the relations between various manuscripts.

Examples

Adjective: The scholar analyzed the stemmatic relationships between the different versions of the ancient text.

Adjective: The stemmatic diagram provided a clear overview of the manuscript copies and their relationships.

Noun: The textual critic employed a stemmatic approach to determine the most reliable version of the manuscript.

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