textual notes, list of variant readings, etc, relating to a document, esp in a scholarly edition of a text
Word origin
Latin: critical apparatus
apparatus criticus in American English
(ˌæpəˈrætəs ˈkrɪtɪkəs, -ˈreitəs, Latin ˌɑːppɑːˈʀɑːtus ˈkʀɪtɪˌkus)
noun
supplementary information, as variant readings, added to a text to provide material for study orcriticism
Word origin
[1860–65; ‹ NL: critical apparatus]This word is first recorded in the period 1860–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Paleolithic, institutionalism, monism, pop-up, raider
Examples of 'apparatus criticus' in a sentence
apparatus criticus
There is an accompanying volume of apparatus criticus.