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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Editor \Ed"i*tor\, n. [L., that which produces, from edere to publish: cf F. ['e]diteur.] One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: editor n 1: a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication 2: (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data [syn: {editor program}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos. O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought, A gilded impostor is he Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought, His crown is brass, Himself an ass, And his power is fiddle-dee-dee. Prankily crankily prating of naught, Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought. Public opinion's camp-follower he Thundering, blundering, plundering free Affected, Ungracious, Suspected, Mendacious, Respected contemporaree! J.H. Bumbleshook
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