Index of English words, starting with "em"

(1) - Emend (v. t.) To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.

(1) - Emendable (a.) Corrigible; amendable.

(1) - Emendation (n.) Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document; as, the book might be improved by judicious emendations.
(2) - Emendation (n.) The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.

(1) - Emendatory (a.) Pertaining to emendation; corrective.