Emily Dickinson Lexicon

ED'IT, v.t. [from L. edo, to publish; e and do, to give.]

1. Properly, to publish; more usually, to superintend a publication; to prepare a book or paper for the public eye, by writing, correcting, or selecting the matter. Those who know how volumes of the fathers are generally edited. Christ. Observer.
2. To publish. Abclard wrote many philosophical treatises which have never been edited. Enfield.