emendatory

English

Adjective

emendatory (comparative more emendatory, superlative most emendatory)

1. (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective
   • 1831, Various, The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831‎^[1]:

     We can judge of the probable success of this course, by the various laws passed to alter, or amend, or repeal, previous emendatory acts.

   • 1924, Various, Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting‎^[2]:

     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.

References

• “emendatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.