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diaskeuast|daɪəˈskjuːæst| Also diasceuast, -scevast. [ad. Gr. διασκευαστής reviser of a poem, interpolator, f. διασκευάζειν, f. διά through + σκευάζειν to make ready.] A reviser; used esp. in reference to old recensions of Greek writings.
1822Campbell in New Monthly Mag. IV. 195 They gave the world materials which were capable of being moulded by future diascevasts into grand and interesting poems. 1871tr. Lange's Comm. Jer. 244 The oversight of a diaskeuast who added this verse of the prophecy against Elam as a postscript. 1886Athenæum 30 Jan. 162/3 He has taken upon himself..the part of a diasceuast, stringing together a number of ‘older lays’. So ‖ diaˈskeuasis [Gr. διασκεύασις], revision (of a literary work), recension.
1886Eggeling in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 281 The authorship of this work [Mahâbhârata] is aptly attributed to Vyâsa, ‘the arranger’, the personification of Indian diaskeuasis. |