Crossword clues for emendation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emendation \Em`en*da"tion\, n. [L. emendatio: cf. F.
The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement. ``He lies in his sin without repentance or emendation.''
--Jer. Taylor.Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document; as, the book might be improved by judicious emendations.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., of ways of life; 17c., of texts; from Latin emendationem (nominative emendatio) "a correction, improvement," noun of action from past participle stem of emendare "to free from fault" (see emend).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement. 2 Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.
WordNet
n. a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing
Wikipedia
Emendations are alterations made to the spelling of names used in biological classification. The change has to consciously made along with justification for altering the spelling originally used by the taxon author while describing the species. Any other spelling changes are considered to be unjustified. Valid emendations include changes made to correct:
- typographical errors in the original work describing the species
- errors in transliteration from non-Latin languages
- names that included diacritics, hyphens
- endings of species to match the gender of the generic name, particularly when the combination has been changed
The binomial authority remains unchanged.
Usage examples of "emendation".
With Rossetti, Dowden, Woodberry, I print red flame,--an obvious emendation proposed by Fleay.
Wear is a plausible emendation, but the text as it stands is defensible.
I accept the necessary emendation of the text proposed in the Bonn edition.
Rossetti pushed revision beyond the bounds of prudence, freely correcting grammatical errors, rectifying small inconsistencies in the sense, and too lightly adopting conjectural emendations on the grounds of rhyme or metre.
Latin, the other Greekwent through many editions and emendations, all of which Sir Ambrose had, it seemed, dutifully collected: as many editions and translations as were printed throughout Europe in the past two hundred years.
Burns made a few emendations of those published in the Kilmarnock edition, and he added others which, as he expressed it, he had carded and spun, since he passed Glenbuck.
Conservative school of critics, and was anxious to guard against hasty emendations of the text, however plausible.
Most of his changes in punctuation and textual emendations have been adopted in the present edition, and attention is called to them in the notes.
Almost every one of these passages has yielded up the secret of its meaning either through a more exact translation or in the light of the textual emendations suggested by de Lollis or proposed by the present editor.
Among such revisions and textual emendations attention may be called to those discussed on pp.
Lang of Yale University, whom he has consulted in regard to perplexing passages or possible emendations, and from whom he has received valuable assistance.
Burns made a few emendations of those published in the Kilmarnock edition, and he added others which, as he expressed it, he had carded and spun, since he passed Glenbuck.
In the first five chapters there are numerous emendations, very few of which, however, affect the meaning to any appreciable extent, being mainly concerned with the excision of redundancies and the simplification of style.
Aristotle, meanwhile, was represented not only by the two-volume Basel edition of 1539, but by the 1550 edition with its emendations by Victorius and Flacius, and finally by the Aristotelis opera edited by the great Isaac Casaubon and published in Geneva.
If the overdose of tedium didn’t take any of the starch out of the Traveller delegation, it could only be due to their bizarre practice of spending all of every Sundy listening to a single extended sermon, with elaborate developments and codas and commentaries and extrapolations, and emendations on the extrapolations, and scattering slightly truncated versions of the same throughout the rest of the week.