redact : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: redact	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for redact
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
redact n someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication Synonym(s): redact, redactor, reviser, rewriter, rewrite man v formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language" Synonym(s): frame, redact, cast, put, couch prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages" Synonym(s): edit, redact
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Redact \Redact"\ (r?d?kt"), v. t. [L. redactus, p. p. of redigere; pref. red-, re-, again, back + agere to put in motion, to drive.] To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.