Definitions for emend

emend e·mend

Spelling: [ih-mend]
IPA: /ɪˈmɛnd/

Emend is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in emend (deemn).

Definitions for emend

verb (used with object)

  1. to edit or change (a text).
  2. to free from faults or errors; correct.

Origin of emend

1375-1425; late Middle English (Middle French emender) Latin ēmendāre “to correct,” equivalent to ē- e-1 + mend(um) “fault” + -āre infinitive suffix

Examples for emend

Some of these are trivial slips that a scribe copying B might emend on his own initiative, or perhaps by a lucky mistake.

emend′als, funds set apart for repairs in the accounts of the Inner Temple.

Partly with the help of Toup, we may emend this corrupt passage as follows: , , .

The alteration is very slight, affecting only one letter, and may be due to error in transcription or to mere desire to emend.

To emend the Vulgate by the Hebrew and Greek is exactly what the heretics seek to do.

Second, all critics have agreed to condemn the digression in which Theobald advertised his ability to emend Greek texts.

That the last line is nonsense was clear to every one; but no critic ever could emend it.

Some critical scholar of eminence should be called upon to emend or explain this mysterious passage.

Word Value for emend
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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