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

If his words could be lawfully shown to have such a tendency he would revoke, emend, and correct them in a Catholic spirit.

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude

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

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

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

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

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

I have almost completely emended him already by collating many old manuscripts.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga

He also collected and emended valuable MSS., which his monks were instructed to copy, and superintended the translation of various Greek works into Latin.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

I have silently emended a few passages; otherwise the text translated is that of Epigrammatum Delectus, Paris, 1659.

From An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by J. V. (James Vincent) Cunningham

The following have been identified as typographical errors and have been emended.

From Baby Nightcaps by Aunt Fanny

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