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Emended

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.

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emended

vb. (en-past of: emend)

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emended

adj. improved or corrected by critical editing; "the emended text" [syn: edited]

Usage examples of "emended".

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.