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emended

  • past participle
    of emend.
    emend
    verb (used with object)
    to edit or change (a text).
  • past tense form
    of emend.
    emend
    verb (used with object)
    to edit or change (a text).

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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

The editor of D. has emended this passage.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

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

One would naturally suppose that historians of74 repute would always make it a rule to procure "sound" texts, properly emended and restored, of the texts they have to consult.

From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry

The poet constantly emended this poem; he seldom reprinted it without minor changes, usually for the better.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau

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