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

Proximum grammatice docet, quae emendate & aperte loquendi vim tradit: Proximum rhetorice, quae ornatum orationis cultum que & omnes capiendarum aurium illecebras invenit.

From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen

“Ceteri,” says Hirtius, the companion of Cæsar’s expeditions, and the continuator of his Commentaries,—“Ceteri quam bene atque emendate; nos etiam quam facile atque celeriter eos perscripserit scimus.”

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John