emendatory
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The duty of a collator is, indeed, dull, yet, like other tedious tasks, is very necessary; but an emendatory critick would ill discharge his duty, without qualities very different from dulness.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel
We can judge of the probable success of this course, by the various laws passed to alter, or amend, or repeal, previous emendatory acts.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert
Others deny the liceity, for sterilization does not achieve the essential purposes of punishment; it is not corrective, preventive, retributive, or emendatory.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome
When these extraordinary specimens of emendatory and illustrative criticism appeared in the “General Dictionary,” with general readers they excited all the astonishment of perfect novelty.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
Interpretation, of law, 315 sqq.; verbal or emendatory, 315; by private or public authority, 316; of ecclesiastical laws, 483 sqq.; rules for doctrinal interpretation, 485.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome
