emendate

American  

[ee-muhn-deyt, em-uhn-, ih-men-deyt] / ˈi mənˌdeɪt, ˈɛm ən-, ɪˈmɛn deɪt /

verb (used with object)

emendated, emendating

1. to emend (a text).

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Other Word Forms

• emendator
  noun

Etymology

Origin of emendate

1875–80; < Latin ēmendātus, past participle of ēmendāre. See emend, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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emendated emendating

Mary Lamb, writing to Sarah Stoddart, probably in October, 1806, says that Charles took an emendated copy of his farce to Mr. Wroughton, the Manager, yesterday.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Lamb, Mary

By his order, the works of Bonaventura were "most carefully emendated."

From Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by Tyler, James Endell

The metaphysician spent ten years thinking out the "Critique of Pure Reason" and only six months writing it; no doubt his text might be emendated with advantage.

From Memoirs of My Dead Life by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Charles took an emendated copy of his farce to Mr. Wroughton the Manager yesterday.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

Our sensations, it seemed, might be as those of our elders had2 been over Mr. Collier's emendated folio, and the tragical end thereof.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)

Already a prodigious classics scholar at 18, he spent his days emendating the Latin poet Propertius instead of reading the syllabus.

From Time Magazine Archive