treated as singularThe branch of study concerned with analysing the relationship of surviving variant versions of a text to each other, especially so as to reconstruct a lost original.
稿本关系学（研究留存下来的各个版本之间的关系以便重建已丢失的原本）
Example sentencesExamples
It is widely accepted that stemmatics originated in the work of Karl Lachmman.
There appear to be strong analogies between the worlds of stemmatics and systematics.
This will be followed by instruction in the theory and practice of textual criticism, including stemmatics.
This is not to imply that stemmatics is useless for the New Testament.
Though this aim is old, some of the methods we use - computer collation, techniques of computerised stemmatics borrowed from evolutionary biology, database analysis - are very much of the late twentieth century.
Definition of stemmatics in US English:
stemmatics
plural nounstemˈadiks
treated as singularThe branch of study concerned with analyzing the relationship of surviving variant versions of a text to each other, especially so as to reconstruct a lost original.
稿本关系学（研究留存下来的各个版本之间的关系以便重建已丢失的原本）
Example sentencesExamples
Though this aim is old, some of the methods we use - computer collation, techniques of computerised stemmatics borrowed from evolutionary biology, database analysis - are very much of the late twentieth century.
This will be followed by instruction in the theory and practice of textual criticism, including stemmatics.
There appear to be strong analogies between the worlds of stemmatics and systematics.
This is not to imply that stemmatics is useless for the New Testament.
It is widely accepted that stemmatics originated in the work of Karl Lachmman.