editional

English

Etymology

From edition +‎ -al.

Adjective

editional (comparative more editional, superlative most editional)

Pertaining to edited and published text.
- 1908, William Richard Harris, By Path and Trail, page 96:
  Some day, it is to be hoped, the Mexican government following the example of the Canadian parliament, which in 1858 printed the "Relations of the Jesuits" in Canada, will give the world in editional form the letters of the Jesuits in Mexico and Lower California.
- 1915 March 25, “Ford Car Section”, in Automobile Journal, volume 39, number 4, page 65:
  Commencing with the April 10 number this department will be arranged to include all advertising of Ford car accessories, equipment and supplies, which will afford to those whose advertisements shall appear preferred position, either facing or beside editional matter.
- 1974, Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber, The Power to Inform, page 3:
  As a result of its well-known covers– each depicting a scene of small-town or rural family life–and its editional content, the magazine had become a mirror of day-to-day living in America.
- 2011, Miranda Beaven Remnek, ‎Miranda Remnek, The Space of the Book, page 252:
  Using a narrower focus (the reception of the oeuvre of just two writers, Il'ia Il'f and Evgenii Petrov, who wrote as a team), the approach is literary and the perspective unusual, the editional segments at issue are not so much the texts themselves as their accompanying materials, or peritexts.
Editorial; pertaining to the editing of a publication.
- 1996, C. Bloom, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory, page 113:
  Although they seemed unable to determine editional policy or curb intellectual independence.
- 1998, Seiji Sato, The Publisher in Changing Markets, page 100:
  Perhaps the most important aspect of Nature is the result of its editional policy and practice— the trust that people place in the scientific research which is reported.
- 2014, Dr. Rajeev Sharma, Massage For Good Health:
  He is also an editional board member of the prestigious Asian Homoeopathic Journal.
Pertaining to editions, versions, and/or copies.
- 1855, John William Wallace, The Reporters, chronologically arranged:
  The various volumes, owing to the irregular way in which they had appeared originally, could not be reduced to any common editional term.
- 1969, Henry Art Gallery, Prints/multiples: An Exhibition of Original Prints and Multiples, page 7:
  As the "Prints/Multiples" exhibition was being planned, it was presumed that its expository basis would be revealed by the works of two groups of artists who, although they both use "editional" media, apparently have differenet attitudes toward them—attitudes perhaps typified by those of Nesch and Munch.
- 1984, Allen Kent, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, volume 37, page 232:
  Sales of publications are made on a full-cost-recovery basis, including costs of administration, and, with editional runs being necessarily small for such specialized material, prices are relatively high.

Derived terms

Noun

editional (plural editionals)

Synonym of editorial
- 1946, Newsweek, volume 28, page 43:
  Public opinions are always provoked by the action and the words of the leader, and the editionals [editorials] of the paper.
- 1951 October-November, “Press Comments”, in Indonesian Affairs, volume 1, number 9, page 59:
  "Rakjat", a leftist newspaper, said in an editional on 22nd October: "In short, the mas's arrestes made by the Government were not approved and were opposed by practically all speakers in Parliament as well as by the press and political leaders outside Parliament.
- 2014, Ric Sissons, ‎Brian Stoddart, Cricket and Empire (RLE Sports Studies), page 82:
  The pro-Labour Daily Herald, in an editional on 19 January, urged that theres should be 'no sentimental climbdown' and pressed the MCC 'to let him [Jardine] lead'.