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

  Emend \E*mend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emended}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Emending}.] [L. emendare; e out + menda, mendum, fault,
     blemish: cf. F. ['e]mender. Cf. {Amend}, {Mend}.]
     To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make
     corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by
     textual criticism, generally verbal.


  
     Syn: To amend; correct; improve; better; reform; rectify. See
          {Amend}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  emended
       adj : improved or corrected by critical editing; "the emended
             text" [syn: {edited}]

















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