Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Edit

Edit (ed"it) , transitive verb

[French éditer, or Latin editus, past participle of edere to give out, put forth, publish; e out + dare to give. See Date a point of time.]

To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.
Philosophical treatises which have never been edited. — Enfield