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 Samuel Johnson
I do so in the hope that perhaps I may recall something which they have forgotten to make known, or that what I say may elicit from them available emendatory remarks.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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
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 Charles Jerome Callan
The notes which I have borrowed or written are either illustrative, by which difficulties are explained; or judicial by which faults and beauties are remarked; or emendatory, by which depravations are corrected.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot
