Noun
The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration.
Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.
The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlcuin's contemporary Theodulf of Orleans produced a second independent reformed recension of the Vulgate, also based largely on Italian exemplars, but with variant readings, from Spanish texts and patristic citations, indicated in the margin. Source: Internet
Also in Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, v.1 Modern translations The first European version (1704–1717) was translated into French by Antoine Galland from an Arabic text of the Syrian recension and other sources. Source: Internet
Each of these three codices "clearly exhibits a fabricated text – is the result of arbitrary and reckless recension." Source: Internet
Great Moravia The language was standardized for the first time by the mission of the two apostles to Great Moravia from 863. The manuscripts of the Moravian recension are therefore the earliest dated of the OCS recensions. Source: Internet
The most important early account of its composition, the Epistle of Sherira Gaon, is ambiguous on the point, though the "Spanish" recension leans to the theory that the Mishnah was written. Source: Internet