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emended

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e·mend  (-mnd)
tr.v. e·mend·ed, e·mend·ing, e·mends
To improve by critical editing: emend a faulty text.

[Middle English emenden, from Latin mendre : -, ex-, ex- + mendum, defect, fault.]

e·mender n.
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Adj.1.emended - improved or corrected by critical editing; "the emended text"
altered - changed in form or character without becoming something else; "the altered policy promised success"; "following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization"; "he looked...with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing"- Charles Dickens


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Emended description of the order Chlamydiales, proposal of Parachlamydiaceae fam.
1) The cultural currency of the Letter to Philemon in that regard has been emended by a hermeneutical tradition that, although widely debated, (2) has sustained as a normative reading.
The paschal essence is especially evident in the prayer of thanksgiving over the water (largely the emended text of Luther's Flood Prayer).
 
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