emendv.
/ɪˈmɛnd/ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > reform, amend, or correct [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person
raisec1175
chastya1240
amenda1275
chastisec1330
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revokec1384
redressc1390
reclaima1393
reducec1425
reform1477
reclaim?a1505
emendc1542
claim1546
reduct1548
save1857
decriminalize1963
?c1450 MS St. John's Coll. Oxf. 117 f. 123 b in W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae (1847) III. 355 Loue him [God] that he emendith the.
c1542 N. Udall in Orig. Lett. Eminent Men (1843) 6 To hope that I maye ere now bee emended for the tyme to cum.
c1542 N. Udall in Orig. Lett. Eminent Men (1843) 7 As another besides me maye happen to dooe amys, so maye I as well as another emend.
2.
a. To free (a thing) from faults, correct (what is faulty), rectify. rare in modern use.
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the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)]
helpc950
amendc1230
bootc1330
correctc1374
menda1375
recovera1398
dighta1400
restorea1400
redressa1402
recurec1425
remedyc1425
remeidc1480
emendc1485
richa1500
rightena1500
chastisea1513
rectifya1529
redeem1575
salve1575
remed1590
reclaim1593
renew1608
retrieve1625
recruit1673
raccommode1754
splice1803
doctor1829
remediate1837
right-side1847
sort1948
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) i. 23 An-other tyme to emende it if we can.
1659 O. Feltham Char. Low Countries ii. (R.) The..force of the sun..hath a little emended them.
1867 J. W. Draper Hist. Amer. Civil War I. xxvi. 447 Universal suffrage has emended the law of the landlord and tenant.
b. esp. To remove errors from (the text of a book or document); = emendate v.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > practise textual criticism [verb (transitive)] > emend
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correctc1374
reformc1425
emaculate1623
mend1631–2
castigate1666
rectify1730
emend1769
doctor?c1775
redress1796
emendate1876
1769 J. Swinton in Philos. Trans. 1768 (Royal Soc.) 58 258 That writer therefore seems to be emended..by my coin.
1832 Sir G. Lewis in Philol. Museum 1 282 Tyrwhitt..ingeniously emends some choliambics cited by Apollonius.
1836 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens (1837) I. 274 Pisistratus..did..collect, arrange, and emend poems.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 524 Passing whole nights..not in emending Greek, but, etc.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [verb (transitive)]
beetc975
menda1200
amenda1250
rightc1275
botcha1382
reparela1382
cure1382
repaira1387
dighta1400
emend1411
to mend up1479
restablishc1500
help1518
trimc1520
redub1522
reparate1548
accommodate1552
reinstaure1609
reconcinnate1623
to do up1647
righta1656
fixa1762
doctor1829
vamp1837
service1916
rejig1976
1411 [implied in: 1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 17 In emendynge of weys lyand about þe manere of Bradfeld. (at emending n.)].
1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 121 A broken chayer emended with small gilt nailles.
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