Amending

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Amend \A*mend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Amended}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Amending}.] [F. amender, L. emendare; e (ex) + mendum,
     menda, fault, akin to Skr. minda personal defect. Cf.
     {Emend}, {Mend}.]
     To change or modify in any way for the better; as,
     (a) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt,


         superfluous, faulty, and the like;
     (b) by supplying deficiencies;
     (c) by substituting something else in the place of what is
         removed; to rectify.
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               Mar not the thing that can not be amended. --Shak.
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               An instant emergency, granting no possibility for
               revision, or opening for amended thought. --De
                                                    Quincey.
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               We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by
               wedding her to a Norman.             --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     {To amend a bill}, to make some change in the details or
        provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage,
        professedly for its improvement.
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     Syn: To {Amend}, {Emend}, {Correct}, {Reform}, {Rectify}.
  
     Usage: These words agree in the idea of bringing things into
            a more perfect state. We correct (literally, make
            straight) when we conform things to some standard or
            rule; as, to correct proof sheets. We amend by
            removing blemishes, faults, or errors, and thus
            rendering a thing more a nearly perfect; as, to amend
            our ways, to amend a text, the draft of a bill, etc.
            Emend is only another form of amend, and is applied
            chiefly to editions of books, etc. To reform is
            literally to form over again, or put into a new and
            better form; as, to reform one's life. To rectify is
            to make right; as, to rectify a mistake, to rectify
            abuses, inadvertencies, etc.
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