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emend, v.|ɪˈmɛnd|
Also 5 emende.
[ad. L. ēmendā-re, f. ē out + menda fault. (OFr. had esmender, emender.) Cf. amend.]
†1. trans. To free (a person) from faults, correct. Also intr. for refl. Obs.
14..MS. St. John's Coll. Oxon. No. 117. 123 b in Maskell Mon. Rit. III. 355 Loue him [God] that he emendith the. c1542Udall in Orig. Lett. Eminent Men (1843) 6 To hope that I maye ere now bee emended for the tyme to cum. ― Ibid. 7 As another besides me maye happen to dooe amys, so maye I as well as another emend.
2. To free (a thing) from faults, correct (what is faulty), rectify. rare in mod. use.
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) i. 23 An-other tyme to emende it if we can. 1659Feltham Low Countries ii. (R.) The..force of the sun..hath a little emended them. 1867Draper Amer. Civ. War I. xxvi. 447 Universal suffrage has emended the law of the landlord and tenant.
b. esp. To remove errors from (the text of a book or document); = emendate v.
1768Swinton in Phil. Trans. LVIII. 258 That writer therefore seems to be emended..by my coin. 1832Sir G. Lewis in Philol. Mus. I. 282 Tyrwhitt..ingeniously emends some choliambics cited by Apollonius. 1836Lytton Athens (1837) I. 274 Pisistratus..did..collect, arrange, and emend poems. 1854Badham Halieut. 524 Passing whole nights..not in emending Greek, but, etc.
†3. To repair or make good (what is broken or damaged); = mend. Obs.
1411[see emending.] 1480Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 121 A broken chayer emended with small gilt nailles. |