In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
emend
(verb) make improvements or corrections to; “the text was emended in the second edition”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
emend (third-person singular simple present emends, present participle emending, simple past and past participle emended)
(transitive) To correct and revise (text or a document).
• Emden, Meden, Mende
Source: Wiktionary
E*mend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emended; p. pr. & vb. n. Emending.] Etym: [L. emendare; e out + menda, mendum, fault, blemish: cf. F. Ă©mender. Cf. Amend, Mend.]
Definition: 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.
Syn.
– To amend; correct; improve; better; reform; rectify. See Amend.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.