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:

     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:

     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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913