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third-person singular simple present emends, present participle emending, simple past and past participle emended
(transitive) To correct and revise (text or a document). quotations examples
Sixteen of these Letters, which were written at the suggestion of the Editor of the “St. James’s Gazette,” appeared in that journal, from which they are now reprinted, by the Editor’s kind permission. They have been somewhat emended, and a few additions have been made.
1886, Andrew Lang, “Preface”, in Letters to Dead Authors
“For art—” Miss Glyde eagerly interjected.¶ “For art and literature,” Mrs. Ballinger emended.
1911, Edith Wharton, Xingu