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ed.

abbr.
1. edition
2. editor
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ed.

abbreviation for pl edspl eds
1. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) edited
2. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) edition
3. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) editor
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ed.

abbr (=editor) → éd. m(= editeur)
(=edition) → éd. f(= édition)
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References in classic literature ?
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LYRICS, ed. Schelling, Ginn, 75 cents.
There are two excellent volumes of Selections from Swift, ed. Craik, Oxford University Press.
Selections, ed. Osgood, Henry Holt and Co., 50 cents.
As we see that every city is a society, and every society Ed. is established for some good purpose; for an apparent [Bekker 1252a] good is the spring of all human actions; it is evident that this is the principle upon which they are every one founded, and this is more especially true of that which has for its object the best possible, and is itself the most excellent, and comprehends all the rest.
69, ed. 1843, comments on this passage as follows: "That great patron and Coryphaeus of this tribe, Nicolo Machiavel, laid down this for a master rule in his political scheme: 'That the show of religion was helpful to the politician, but the reality of it hurtful and pernicious.'"
The papyrus fragment recovered by Petrie ("Petrie Papyri", ed. Mahaffy, p.
Editions of the Homeric Hymns, & c.: -- Demetrius Chalcondyles, Florence, 1488 (with the "Epigrams" and the "Battle of the Frogs and Mice" in the "ed. pr." of Homer).
I never was so much surprised in all my life - couldn't credit my own ed - to tell you the truth, hardly believed it were my own ed. As I was saying, Pip, it were my intentions to have had it cut over him; but poetry costs money, cut it how you will, small or large, and it were not done.
Szymanski (Eds.), Rehabilitation counseling: Basics and beyond (2nd ed.), (305-332).
Perhaps you've seen Ed. He's the man beside Fred when Fred took his world record Brown Bear in 1961.