emend

Bowman lived in New York, and had no children—surely it wasn’t much to ask for him to emend a plan?

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 2, 2019

In his 1897 novel, “An Antarctic Mystery,” he saw fit to emend Poe, rescuing Pym from the boiling sea only to kill him off on a lodestone mountain.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2017

But writers also seem driven to confront, reinterpret and emend the canon.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2013

The final bill that President Roosevelt took down the Potomac was still studded with question marks and blank spaces for him to emend.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the author undertakes to emend the text for himself, or offers an original interpretation, his work is not always trustworthy.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

So the first edition, and the Hampshire and Winchester Editions; but Bentley emends to 'Sèvres,' which must surely be correct.

From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by William Austen-Leigh

B. emends and renders: Nor was there any man in that desert who rejoiced in conflict, in battle-work.

From Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by Lesslie Hall

The chronological impossibility involved in the figure is removed by Mohl who emends it to 260.

From Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I by G. K. (Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro) Nariman

By water, with most editors, emends the text.

From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Ingram Bywater

Experience accumulates and man's knowledge grows; the expectation and joy in progress is a part of it; man's code changes, emends, expands with his onward marching.

From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch

The Nicene Creed, formulated under Emperor Constantine in AD 325 and emended in AD 381, stated bluntly that Christ “was crucified under Pontius Pilate.”

From Time ● Mar. 30, 2016

In 1542 it was succeeded by an emended edition.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Now either the Curetonian has alone preserved the true text, or the Curetonian is an emended version.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

One would naturally suppose that historians of74 repute would always make it a rule to procure "sound" texts, properly emended and restored, of the texts they have to consult.

From Introduction to the Study of History by George Godfrey Berry

Tied to her," Marion Reddon emended, "and truer than he otherwise might be.

From One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick

"It’s rife with typos and misspellings and sprinkled with attempts at emending them."

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014

It’s rife with typos and misspellings and sprinkled with attempts at emending them.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014

Impasse," the Governor says, like a finicky lexicographer emending an improper usage, "means no progress.

From Time Magazine Archive

Several verbs ending in t or d have all but dropped the emending in the past tense.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

“They can’t leave them,” said I, and then, emending: “We. We cannot be.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson