Emend Definition

ĭ-mĕnd
emends
verb
To correct or improve.
Webster's New World
To make scholarly corrections or improvements in (a text)
Webster's New World
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Origin of Emend

  • From Middle English menden, from Latin emendo (“I free from fault”), from ex- (“out”) + mendum (“fault, blemish”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English emenden from Latin ēmendāre ē-, ex- ex- mendum defect, fault

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Emend Sentence Examples

  • In 1891, with the object of getting the total duration of the dynasties to agree with the chronological system of Berossus and with the statement of Nabonidus concerning Khammurabi's date, Peiser proposed to emend the figure given by the Kings' List for the length of Dynasty III.

  • The trouble began early in the 17th century with the attempt, made in connexion with the printing of the liturgical books, to emend certain ritual details in which there was proved to have been a departure from primitive usage; 1 it came to a head under the patriarch Nikon.

  • Known as aprepitant, it is sold under the brand name Emend.

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