emend

present singular third person emends · participle present emending · participle past emended · past emended

1. transitiveTo correct and revise (text or a document).

   “For art—” Miss Glyde eagerly interjected.¶ “For art and literature,” Mrs. Ballinger emended.

   1911, Edith Wharton, Xingu

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   Sixteen of these Letters, which were written at the suggestion of the Editor of the “St. James’s Gazette,” appeared in that journal, from which they are now reprinted, by the Editor’s kind permission. They have been somewhat emended, and a few additions have been made.

   1886, Andrew Lang, “Preface”, in Letters to Dead Authors