(v. t.) To change or modify in any way for the better
(v. t.) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;
(v. t.) by supplying deficiencies;
(v. t.) by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.
(v. i.) To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(2) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
(3) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
(4) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
(5) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
(6) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
(7) The resolution must be passed by both houses but cannot be amended.
(8) The Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 was signed into law by President Bush on November 15, 1990.
(9) Earlier this week the Obama administration said it would veto the bill unless major amendments were made.
(10) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
(11) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
(12) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(13) This article was amended on 29 January 2016 to correct statistics from the BASW survey.
(14) The factsheet, concerning NSA's powers under Section 702 of the 2008 Fisa Amendments Act, was also supplied to members of Congress.
(15) During the night the Government has to do whatever it takes to re-include those amendments – on which they will attach a vote of confidence – otherwise Italians will see their taxes increase again without important compensatory measures being passed.
(16) • The headline on this article was amended on 20 January 2015.
(17) The Vitter amendment is popular with the Tea Party, which takes it to be an accountability measure.
(18) They all owe their existence to him.” This article was amended on 2 July 2015 to correct the name of the hospital where Sir Nicholas Winton died.
(19) This article was amended on 10 May 2016 to correct the wording of Labour’s Clause IV.
(20) The amendment has sparked a particular backlash against the senator widely regarded as responsible for the decision, Ahmed Yerima, who is reported to have married a 13-year old Egyptian girl.
Emend
Definition:
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Emended diagnoses of the Monocotylinae and Monocotyle are provided.
(2) fam., with pseudosuckers, had its monophyly supported by characters present in the newly named prodiplostomulum metacercaria; and the emended Diplostomidae, also with pseudosuckers, had the most derived states and its monophyly was supported by characters present in the diplostomulum.
(3) The genus Helicobacter is also emended; Campylobacter cinaedi and Campylobacter fennelliae are included in this genus as Helicobacter cinaedi comb.
(5) Therefore, we propose recognition of Streptococcus constellatus (emend.)
(6) A new, insect-associated species of the emended genus Sterigmatomyces, St. wingfieldii, is described.
(7) The account of the life history of P. echinus is emended accordingly and differences in structure and behavior between that species and P. pseudoechinus are described.
(8) fam., the emended Diplostomidae, and the Strigeidae as a monophyletic assemblage.
(9) n., and G. amadai Yamaguti 1937, the type species, allows emendation of the description of that genus and supression of Glomericirrinae Yamaguti 1958.
(10) The family Diploposthidae is suppressed and the family Acoleidae is emended to include the 4 genera previously placed in Diploposthidae.
(11) An emended description of the genus Desulfotomaculum is proposed which includes the new bacterium as the species Desulfotomaculum acetoxidans.
(12) The generic diagnosis of Calliobothrium is emended to include this species with 2 rather than 3 posthook loculi.
(13) As his biographer Martin Stannard points out, "Of all the pre-war manuscripts, that of Scoop is the most heavily emended, and further revision is revealed by the substantial structural changes which appear when it is compared with the printed text."
(14) The host range of phage JHJ-1, on non-lysogenic strains, was emended to include all of the Saccharopolyspora strains tested; the host range of phage JHJ-2 was shown to be identical to JHJ-1.
(15) We propose that the emended genus Campylobacter should be limited to Campylobacter fetus, Campylobacter hyointestinalis, Campylobacter concisus, Campylobacter mucosalis, Campylobacter sputorum, Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli, Campylobacter lari, and "Campylobacter upsaliensis."
(16) The genus Serpentostephanus Sudarikov, 1961 is placed in the subfamily Szydatinae Dubois, 1938, the diagnosis of which is emended.
(17) Mastigamoebid amoeboid flagellates of the genera Mastigamoeba, Mastigella, Mastigina, and possibly Dinamoeba are placed with Pelomyxa within the order Pelobiontida Page, 1976, emend., containing two families.
(18) The family diagnosis of the Disculicepitidae, and the description of D. pileatus are emended.
(19) Emended description of the type strain of S. capsulata is presented.
(20) (type strain NCTC 10713 [= ATCC 33397]) as distinct species and propose an emended description of each of these taxa.