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Definition of the day : « emend »
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- Partly with the help of Toup, we may emend this corrupt passage as follows: , , .
- Extract from : « On the Sublime » by Longinus
- Some critical scholar of eminence should be called upon to emend or explain this mysterious passage.
- Extract from : « Eothen » by A. W. Kinglake
- Emend′als, funds set apart for repairs in the accounts of the Inner Temple.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
- That the last line is nonsense was clear to every one; but no critic ever could emend it.
- Extract from : « The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays » by Thomas Keightley
- To emend the Vulgate by the Hebrew and Greek is exactly what the heretics seek to do.
- Extract from : « A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4 » by Henry Charles Lea
- Second, all critics have agreed to condemn the digression in which Theobald advertised his ability to emend Greek texts.
- Extract from : « Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) » by Lewis Theobald
- The alteration is very slight, affecting only one letter, and may be due to error in transcription or to mere desire to emend.
- Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 2 » by Alexander Maclaren
- Some of these are trivial slips that a scribe copying B might emend on his own initiative, or perhaps by a lucky mistake.
- Extract from : « A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger » by Elias Avery Lowe and Edward Kennard Rand