Part 378

<hw>A*me"na*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.</def>

<h1>Amenably</h1> <Xpage=47>

<hw>A*me"na*bly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an amenable manner.</def>

<h1>Amenage</h1> <Xpage=47>

<hw>Am"e*nage</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>amesnagier</ets>. See <er>Manage</er>.]</ety> <def>To manage.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Amenance</h1> <Xpage=47>

<hw>Am"e*nance</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. See <er>Amenable</er>.]</ety> <def>Behavior; bearing.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Amend</h1> <Xpage=47>

<hw>A*mend"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Amended</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Amending</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>amender</ets>, L. <ets>emendare</ets>; <ets>e</ets>(<ets>ex</ets>) + <ets>mendum</ets>, <ets>menda</ets>, fault, akin to Skr. <ets>minda</ets> personal defect. Cf. <er>Emend</er>, <er>Mend</er>.]</ety> <def>To change or modify in any way for the better</def>; as, <sd>(a)</sd> <def>by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>by supplying deficiencies;</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.</def>

<blockquote>Mar not the thing that can not be <b>amended</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for <b>amended</b> thought. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We shall cheer her sorrows, and <b>amend</b> her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To amend a bill</col>, <cd>to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professedly for its improvement.</cd></cs>

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<syn>Syn. -- To <er>Amend</er>, <er>Emend</er>, <er>Correct</er>, <er>Reform</er>, <er>Rectify</er>.</syn> <usage>These words agree in the idea of bringing things into a more perfect state. We <i>correct</i> (literally, make straight) when we conform things to some standard or rule; as, to <i>correct</i> proof sheets. We <i>amend</i> by removing blemishes, faults, or errors, and thus rendering a thing more a nearly perfect; as, to <i>amend</i> our ways, to <i>amend</i> a text, the draft of a bill, etc. <i>Emend</i> is only another form of <i>amend</i>, and is applied chiefly to editions of books, etc. To <i>reform</i> is literally to form over again, or put into a new and better form; as, to <i>reform</i> one's life. To <i>rectify</i> is to make right; as, to <i>rectify</i> a mistake, to <i>rectify</i> abuses, inadvertencies, etc.<usage>

<h1>Amend</h1> <Xpage=48>

<hw>A*mend"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.</def> "My fortune . . . <i>amends</i>."

<i>Sir P. Sidney.</i>

<h1>Amendable</h1> <Xpage=48>

<hw>A*mend"a*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being amended; <as>as, an <ex>amendable</ex> writ or error</as>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>A*mend"a*ble*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Amendatory</h1> <Xpage=48>

<hw>A*mend"a*to*ry</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory.</def>

<i>Bancroft.</i>

<h1>Amende</h1> <Xpage=48>

<hw>A`mende"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. See <er>Amend</er>.]</ety> <def>A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation.</def>

<cs><col>Amende honorable</col><cd><tt>(#)</tt>. <fld>(Old French Law)</fld> A species of infamous punishment in which the offender, being led into court with a rope about his neck, and a lighted torch in his hand, begged pardon of his God, the court, etc. In popular language, the phrase now denotes a public apology or recantation, and reparation to an injured party, for improper language or treatment.</cd></cs>