Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Concerned with the work of emending or correcting; amendatory.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to emendation; corrective.

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  • adjective archaic Pertaining to emendation; corrective

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Examples

  • The notes which I have borrowed or written are either illustrative, by which difficulties are explained; or judicial, by which faults and beauties are remarked; or emendatory, by which depravations are corrected.

    Preface to Shakespeare 2004

  • The duty of a collator is indeed dull, yet, like other tedious tasks, is very necessary; but an emendatory critick would ill discharge his duty, without qualities very different from dulness.

    Preface to Shakespeare 2004

  • What he undertook he has well enough performed, but as he neither attempts judicial nor emendatory criticism, he employs rather his memory than his sagacity.

    Preface to Shakespeare 2004

  • The duty of a collator is indeed dull, yet, like other tedious tasks, is very necessary; but an emendatory critick would ill discharge his duty, without qualities very different from dulness.

    Preface to Shakespeare 1969

  • What he undertook he has well enough performed, but as he neither attempts judicial nor emendatory criticism, he employs rather his memory than his sagacity.

    Preface to Shakespeare 1969

  • The notes which I have borrowed or written are either illustrative, by which difficulties are explained; or judicial, by which faults and beauties are remarked; or emendatory, by which depravations are corrected.

    Preface to Shakespeare 1969

  • I do so in the hope that perhaps I may recall something which they have forgotten to make known, or that what I say may elicit from them available emendatory remarks.

    Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924

  • 'The audience at recitations may be compared with the modern literary reviews, discharging the functions of a preventive and emendatory, not merely of a correctional tribunal.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894

  • On the principles of safe emendatory criticism, it should therefore be left undisturbed.

    The Treasury of Sacred Song 1890

  • It might now be proper, had not the favour with which it was at first received filled the kingdom with copies, to reprint it with notes partly supplemental and partly emendatory, to subjoin those discoveries which the industry of the last age has made, and correct those mistakes which the author has committed not by idleness or negligence, but for want of Boyle's and Newton's philosophy.

    Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

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