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Definition of Emending
1. emend [v] - See also: emend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emending
Literary usage of Emending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Atharva-veda Saṁhitā by William Dwight Whitney, Charles Rockwell Lanman (1904)
"That is, apparently, give her all the attractions which these various seductive
things are known to possess. 'Courtezan,' lit. 'great naked woman,' emending ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The second group, comprising the next four names, attempts to reconcile the
conflicting data by emending the figures. The third group, consisting of the ..."
3. The Complaint of Nature by Alanus (1908)
"... and, if any herb of base seed dare to sprout in the 1 emending iste to Me.
* emending ille to iste. ' emending iste to ille. * emending ille to iste. ..."
4. Report of the Board of Statutory Consolidation by Adolph Julius Rodenbeck (1903)
"432 3,4 Public cemetery in Hempstead, Queers county, emending L. 1869, Ch. 76.
434 All Special deputy excise commissioners 1 in ccrt.nin localities, ..."
5. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1893)
"... lies between accepting asto«i as a third person singular and emending Trito
to Tritam. ... is obliged to ignore Trita by emending trito to uto (uta-ru). ..."
6. Plato's Republic: The Greek Text by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Lewis Campbell (1894)
"Plato's language is so highly wrought, so various, and so full of unexpected
turns, that the task of emending him is like that of emending poetry. ..."
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