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emendate
emendate
English
Adjective
emendate (not comparable)
Verb
emendate (third-person singular simple present emendates, present participle emendating, simple past and past participle emendated)
- (transitive) Remove errors and corruptions from (a text).
References
- “† Emendate, a.” listed on page 118 of volume III (D–E), § ii (E) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [first edition, 1897]
- “†emendate, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [second edition, 1989]
- “Emendate, v.” listed on page 118 of volume III (D–E), § ii (E) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [first edition, 1897]
- “emendate, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [second edition, 1989]
Latin
Etymology
From ēmendātus (“correct, faultless, perfect”), from ēmendō (“I free from faults, I correct, I improve, I amend”) and -ē (“-ly, -ily”).
Adverb
ēmendātē
- faultlessly, correctly, perfectly, purely syn.
- ēmendātē loquī ― to speak correctly
Synonyms
References
- emendate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- emendate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to write correctly, in faultless style: emendate scribere
- to write correctly, in faultless style: emendate scribere