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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
emend
verb
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▪ When this happened, the raw data had to be emended.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emend

Emend \E*mend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emended; p. pr. & vb. n. Emending.] [L. emendare; e out + menda, mendum, fault, blemish: cf. F. ['e]mender. Cf. Amend, Mend.] To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.

Syn: To amend; correct; improve; better; reform; rectify. See Amend.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
emend

"remove faults from, alter for the better," c.1400, from Latin emendare "to free from fault, correct, improve, revise," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + mendum (nominative menda) "fault, blemish" (see amend). Related: Emended; emending.

Wiktionary
emend

vb. (context transitive English) To correct and revise (''text or a text'').

WordNet
emend

v. make improvements or corrections to; "the text was emended in the second edition"

Usage examples of "emend".

Enderby emended with haste, "the picture of a man who looks very much like me, or so I'm told.

For one thing, since Tolkien eventually emended the ending for plural exclusive "we"

Some, however, have thought that the Greek copies of the Septuagint version should be emended from the Hebrew copies.

He had finally got the revised court-martial scene from Blount, and would now have to transmute it into readable prose, emending the author’s stupid lapses of logic, illiterate blunders of language and raspingly ugly style.

And if this is just, here is a Platonist emending Plato, here is a man who saw what Plato did not see, and who did not shrink from correcting so illustrious a master, but preferred truth to Plato.

Obvious misprints have been silently corrected, but in a few cases notes show where emendations have been introduced from Wynkyn de Worde--not that Wynkyn had any more right to emend Caxton than we, but because even a printer's conjecture gains a little sanctity after four centuries.