emendations's Usage Examples:

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

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

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.

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.

He is chiefly known for his edition of Horace (1721) with notes, mostly critical, which included a volume of Animadversiones upon Richard Bentley's notes and emendations.

As to alterations (emendations) that are less than certain, his attitude is clearly if somewhat crudely expressed in the dictum that it is better to leave in the text "what if not the original reading is at least the remains of it.

The celebrated scholar, Turnebus, complained that some of his emendations had been appropriated without acknowledgment.

The rubrics of the Scottish portion of the book are somewhat stricter, and, indeed, one or two of the Geneva rubrics were made more absolute in the Scottish emendations; but no doubt the ` Book of Common Order' is best described as a discretionary liturgy.

Reiske's first years in Leiden were not unhappy, till he got into serious trouble by introducing emendations of his own into the second edition of Burmann's Petronius, which he had to see through the press.

Synonyms:

correction, rectification,

Antonyms:

None