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emendation|iːmənˈdeɪʃən|
[ad. L. ēmendātiōn-em, noun of action f. ēmendāre to emend. (In OF. esmendacion).]
The action of emending.
†1. Correction, reformation, improvement (of life, conduct, etc.). Obs.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 166 The noblis of Scotland..seand na emendation of his life. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 201 The emendation of the Church. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 II. 110 Emendation..of nature is produced by his grace.
2. Improvement by alteration and correction; esp. of literary or artistic products, methods of procedure, scientific systems, etc.; a particular instance of such improvement.
1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 95 The emendations of Poemes be very necessary. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. v. (1851) 116 All this..interpolisht by some second hand with crooks and emendations. 1665Wharton Disc. Observ. Easter Wks. (1683) 36 A better Emendation of the Calendar. 1736Butler Anal. Introd. Wks. 1874 I. 7 What would be the amount of these emendations..upon the system of nature. 1783Mason Fresnoy's Art Paint. Pref. (R.) I hardly left a single line in it without giving it..an emendation. 1830Cunningham Brit. Paint. I. 156 His friends suggested emendations. 1854H. Rogers Ess. (1860) II. 52 Leibnitz' emendation of the saying..has passed into epigrammatic notoriety. 1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. vi. 193 A man's biography with..emendations by his ghost.
b. esp. The correction (usually by conjecture or inference) of the text of an author where it is presumed to have been corrupted in transmission; a textual alteration for this purpose.
1622–62Heylin Cosmogr. (1674) Introd. 9/2 The emendation of Bochartus coming in to help. 1778R. Lowth Isaiah Prelim. Dissert. (ed. 12) 45 Whether the conjectural rendering, or the conjectural emendation, be the more agreeable to the context. 1877Dowden Shaks. Prim. iii. 30 The emendations being often more wrong than right. |