emendation's Usage Examples:

At certain epochs in the transmission of literature systematic efforts have been made to improve the transmitted texts, and these efforts have naturally been accompanied by a good deal of emendation both successful and unsuccessful.

"Others have attempted to reconcile the conflicting data by emendations of the figures and other ingenious devices.

The received Hebrew text has undergone but little emendation, and the revisers had before them substantially the same Massoretic text which was in the hands of the translators of 1611.

Grassmann, Die lineale Ausdehnungslehre (Leipzig, 1844), Die Ausdehnungslehre (Berlin, 1862) (these are reprinted with valuable emendations and notes in his Gesammelte math.

This in the case of most writings is fairly readable, because it has been purged by the continuous emendation of scholars during several centuries.

The proof is then returned to the printer, and if these corrections are at all heavy, another proof, called the " revise," is submitted, together with the first marked one, so that the author may see that his emendations have been made.

From one of Oldenburg's early letters we learn that the treatise De intellectus emendation was probably Spinoza's first occupation at Rhijnsburg.

His commentary on Manilius is really a treatise on the astronomy of the ancients, and it forms an introduction to the De emendatione temporum, in which he examines by the light of modern and Copernican science the ancient system as applied to epochs, calendars and computations of time, showing upon what principles they were based.

These tests, and these alone, are emendations bound to satisfy; but others are often tacitly imposed upon them.

The balance of opinion was in favour of those of the first group of writers, who avoided emendations of the figures and were content to follow the Kings' List and to ignore its apparent discrepancies with other chronological data; but it is now admitted that the general principle underlying the third group of theories was actually nearer the truth.

1 To use caution in accepting the chronological notices of the later kings is very far removed from suggesting emendations of their figures.

variants, or, more probably, as emendations corresponding to the errata or corrigenda of a modern printed book.

Synonyms:

correction, rectification,

Antonyms:

None