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e·mend

(ĭ-mĕnd′)

tr.v. e·mend·ed, e·mend·ing, e·mends

To improve by critical editing: emend a faulty text.

[Middle English emenden, from Latin ēmendāre : ē-, ex-, ex- + mendum, defect, fault.]

e·mend′er n.

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Adj.

emended - improved or corrected by critical editing; "the emended text"

edited

altered - changed in form or character without becoming something else; "the altered policy promised success"; "following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization"; "he looked...with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing"- Charles Dickens

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It lists all taxa published before January 1, 2018 currently considered as valid, their synonyms, emended names, and misspellings.

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of the Code "any other emendation is an "unjustified emendation"; the name thus emended is available and it has its own author and date and is a junior objective synonym of the name in its original spelling; it enters into homonymy and can be used as a substitute name".

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In the aftermath of the Syrian civil war, however, leading international powers emended their perceptions of the dangers lurking all around Lebanon and actually set up an International Support Group to extend sorely needed assistance.

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The editor of the modern edition from which I have just quoted has emended in two places the last line of the passage, which in all early editions reads 'And make our strokes to wound the senseless lure [1593 actually has 'lute']'.

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borellii from the upper Parana river floodplain, Brazil, and an emended diagnosis for T.

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This volume contains the books Ezra and Nehemiah and 1-2 Maccabees in Syriac, a language closely related to Aramaic, from an emended version of MS B.

The Old Testament in Syriac; according to the Peshitta version

New York State recently emended the Cooperative and Condominium Tax Abatement to extend benefit eligibility to units owned in trusts.

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Government of Pakistan is violating SBP (emended) Act of 2012 in borrowing excessively.