emend
verb (used with object)
to edit or change (a text).
emended
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past participleof emend.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof emend.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
emendverb (used with object)to edit or change (a text).
Example Sentences
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The Nicene Creed, formulated under Emperor Constantine in AD 325 and emended in AD 381, stated bluntly that Christ “was crucified under Pontius Pilate.”
From Time ● Mar. 30, 2016
Here Aldus, if he read the pages of our fragment and read them with care, might have seen warrant for following either the original text or the emended form, as he preferred.
From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe
Then, afraid of his own audacity, emended the last sentence by saying: "Yes, I have often thought of the old place and its occupants."
From A Singular Metamorphosis by May Evelyn Skiles
A text, writing, or statement is amended by the author or by some adequate authority; it is often emended by conjecture.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
Conceivably a day may come when, thanks to the organisation of labour, all existing documents will have been discovered, emended, arranged, and all the facts established of which the traces have not been destroyed.
From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry
