emendatory
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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 Isaac Disraeli
From the foregoing it follows that the Natural Law is so unchangeable that it cannot be abrogated or properly dispensed, or given an emendatory interpretation.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
How far it is legitimate, emendatory critics may determine; but by transposing the B and L, the word becomes Sa-lab-ingii.
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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 Samuel Johnson
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 Robert Walsh
