v. Also 5 emende. [ad. L. ēmendā-re, f. ē out + menda fault. (OFr. had esmender, emender.) Cf. AMEND.]
† 1. trans. To free (a person) from faults, correct. Also intr. for refl. Obs.
14[?]. MS. St. John’s Coll. Oxon. No. 117. 123 b, in Maskell, Mon. Rit., III. 355. Loue him [God] that he emendith the.
c. 1542. Udall, in Orig. Lett. Eminent Men (1843), 6. To hope that I maye ere now bee emended for the tyme to cum. Ibid., 7. As another besides me maye happen to dooe amys, so maye I as well as another emend.
2. To free (a thing) from faults, correct (what is faulty), rectify. rare in mod. use.
c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), I. 23. An-other tyme to emende it if we can.
1659. Feltham, Low Countries (1677), 5 (R.). The … force of the Sun … hath a little emended them.
1867. Draper, Amer. Civ. War, I. xxvi. 447. Universal suffrage has emended the law of the landlord and tenant.
b. esp. To remove errors from (the text of a book or document); = EMENDATE v.
1768. Swinton, in Phil. Trans., LVIII. 253. That writer therefore seems to be emended … by my coin.
1832. Sir G. Lewis, in Philol. Mus., I. 282. Tyrwhitt … ingeniously emends, some choliambics cited by Apollonius.
1836. Lytton, Athens (1837), I. 275, note. Pisistratus … did … collect, arrange, and emend poems.
1854. Badham, Halieut., 524. Passing whole nights à la Porson, not in emending Greek, but [etc.].
† 3. To repair or make good (what is broken or damaged); = MEND. Obs.
1411. [see EMENDING].
1480. Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV. (1830), 121. A broken chayer emended with small gilt nailles.
