Rollo was kald Roberd, whan he was baptized
Thorgh the kyng Alfride, als he had deuised.
R. Brunne, p. 24.

The sorwe of Dorigene he told him als,
How loth her was to ben a wicked wif,
And that she lever had lost that day her life.

Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,902.
Also thei saien, there is an hell,
Whiche vnto mans sinne is due;
And bidden vs therfore eschewe
That wicked is, and do the good.-Gower. Con. A. Prol.
Alsoone may shepheard climbe to skie,
That leades in lowly dales,

As goteherd prowd, that, sitting hie,

Upon the mountayne sayles.-Spenser. Shep. Cal. July. To whose [Astoreth] bright image, nightly by the moon, Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs, In Sion also not unsung.-Millon. Paradise Lost, b. i.

ALTAR, n. Fr. Aulter, Autel; It. Altare; Sp. Altar; Lat. Altare, from altus, high. A place raised. Applied to

A place, appointed to receive offerings to Jehovah, in the Jewish Theology; to the gods, in the Heathen Mythology: and also applied by many Christians to the place, where the sacrament of the Lord's Supper is administered.

The kyng wepte with his ine, that sight mykelle he praised, & siluer grete plente opōn the altere laid.-R.Brunne, p.79.

Men of Athenys bi alle thingis I se ghou as veyne worschiperis, for I passide and sigh ghoure mawmetis, and foonde an auter in which was writen to the unknowun God. therfore which thing ghe unknowinge worschipen this thing I schewe to ghou.-Wiclif. Dedis, c. 17.

Men of Athens, I perceaue that in all thinges ye are to supersticious. For as I passed by, and behelde the maner how ye worship youre goddes, I founde an aulter wherin was writte; vnto the vnknowen God. Whom ye then ignorantly worship, him shew I vnto you.-Bible, 1539. Ib. She with the mole all in her handes devout Stode neare the aulter, bare of the one foote, With vesture loose, the bandes vnlaced all. Surrey. Virgile. Enæis, b. iv.

They come like sacrifices in their trimme,
And to the fire ey'd maid of smoakie warre,
All hot, and bleeding, will we offer them;
The mayled Mars shall on his altar sit
7p to the eares in blood.

Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. IV. Act iv. sc. 1. Now did Ridley, Bishop of London, by his injunctions order the altars in his diocese to be taken down, as occasions of great superstition and error, and tables to be set in their room in some convenient places of the chancel or choir. Strype. Memorials. Edw. VI. an. 1550. Now with a sacred cake and lifted hands, All bent on death, before her altar stands The royal victim, the devoted fair;

Her robes were gather'd, and one foot was bare. Pitt. Virgil (ut supra). Orders were given, and rigorously insisted on, that the communion-table should be removed from the middle of the area, where it hitherto stood in all churches, except in cathedrals. It was placed at the east end, railed in, and denominated an altar.-Hume. Hist. of England, an. 1630.

Now if ye be in verai dede turned frō euil trees into good trees, bryng ye foorthe good fruictes, such as maie testifie your hertes to bee truely altered into a better frame. Udal. St. Luke, c. 3. Licurge, to thentent that theffect of his beneuolence, toward the comune weale of his countrey mought persist and continue, and that his excellent lawes beinge stablyshed, shulde never be alterate, he dyd lette swere all his people. Elyot. The Governour, b. ii. c. 9.

By our applications we cannot pretend to produce any alteration in the Deity, but by an alteration in ourselves we may alter the relation or respect lying between him and us. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, § 5. But besides these two divine hypostases already mentioned, Parmenides seems to have asserted also a third, which, because it had yet more alterity, for distinction sake, was called by him, neither ev тò mãν, One the universe or all, nor ἓν πάντα, One all things; but ἓν καὶ πάντα, One and all things.-Cudworth. Intellectual System, b. i. c. 4.

ALTERCATION, n. Fr. Alterquer, Altercation; It. Altercazione; Sp. Altercacion; Lat. Altercatio, from altercari, and this from alter, other; to say otherwise, different from, in opposition, or answer to: applied particularly where the debate or disputation is somewhat acrimonious: hence

Debate, strife, contention, dispute, wrangling.
The parties wer so felle altercand on ilk side,
That non the soth couth telle, whedir pes or werre suld
tide,

Bot God that is of myght, & may help whan he wille.
R. Brunne, p. 314.

But atte laste, shortly for to sain,
(As all day falleth altercation
Betwen frendes in disputison)
Ther fell a strif betwix his brethren two.

Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9349. We have had altercation and clamour enough: if any good might have been done by clamour and altercation, we have suffered on both parts more than enough.

Bp. Hall. Peace Maker. When Jacob abruptly left the house of his father-in-law, Laban, and was pursued, and overtaken by him, a warm altercation took place.-Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes.

ALTERNATE, v. ALTERNATE, n. ALTERNATE, adj. ALTERN. ALTERNALLY. ALTERNATELY. ALTERNA'TION. ALTERNATIVE, n. ALTERNATIVE, adj. ALTERNATIVELY. ALTERNITY.

Fr. Alterner; It. Alternare; Sp. Alternar; Lat. Alternare, Alternatio; from alternus, from alter; other.

To follow another, one after another, in an uninterrupted succession of the same changes, or turns; to interchange.

And God made two great lights, great for their use
To man, the greater to have rule by day,

The less by night, altern.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vii.
Affranius & Petreius did command
Those camps with equall power, but concord made,
Their gouernement more firme; their men obay'd
Alternally both generalls commonds.-May. Lucan, b.iv.
But fate does so alternate the design,
Whilst that in heaven, this light on earth must shine.
B. Jonson, Ode 88.

Mary then, and gentle Anne,

Both to reign at once began;
Alternately they sway'd,
And sometimes Mary was the fair,
And sometimes Anne the crown did wear,

And sometimes both I obey'd.—Cowley. Chronicle.

-Here they slept Fann'd with cool winds, save those who in their course Melodious hymns about the sovran throne

Alternate all night long.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v.

For such alternations as are there us'd, must be by several persons; but the minister and the people cannot so sever their interests, as to sustain several persons; he being the only mouth of the whole body which he presents.

Id. Apology for Smectymnuus.

An appeal alternatively made may be tolerated by the civil law as valid.-Ayliffe. Parergon.

While men conceive they [elephants] never lie down, and enjoy not the position of rest, ordained unto all pedestrious animals, hereby they imagine that an animal of the vastest dimension and longest duration, should live in a continual motion, without that alternity and vicissitude of rest, whereby all others continue.-Brown. Vulg. Err. b. iii. c. 1.

Taken alternately, desolation by famine, and destruction by the sword. Of which alternate construction I shall add a remarkable example or two; where the parallelism arises from the alternation of the members of the sentences. Lowth. Isaiah. Preliminary Dis. ALTHOUGH, conj. All-though. Tho', though, thah, is the imperative Thaf or Thafig of the A. S. verb Thafian or Thafigan; to allow, permit, grant, yield, assent, (Tooke, vol. i. p. 184.) See THOUGH. All be it, or be it all, allowed, permitted, &c.

For many a man so hard is of his herte,
He may not wepe although him sore smerte.
Chaucer. The Prol. The Frere
For good counseill is good to here,
All though a man be wise hym selue,
Yet is the wisdome more of twelue.

Gower. Con. A. The Prol. In perils strange, in labours long and wide; In which although good fortune me befall, Yet shall it not by none be testifyde. "What is that guest," quoth then Sir Artegall, That you into such perils presently doth call?"

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 1. Cho. Although we wish the glory still might last Of such a night, and for the causes past: Yet now, great lord of waters, and of isles, Give Proteus leave to turn unto his wiles.

B. Jonson. Neptune's Triumph.

Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 25.

Various are the means whereby the sultan daily adds prodigious sums to his vast revenues, such as, for example, the obliging every one of the bashaws and governors of his dominions, every new year's day to send him presents, commonly in ready money, which does amount to a very large and almost incredible amassment.

Purbeck. Pr. State of the Turkish Empire. Though indeed, as 'tis now in the subject, 'tis but an amassment of imaginary conceptions, prejudices, ungrounded opinions, and infinite impostures.

Glanvil. Of Dogmatizing, c. 11. Have you been more anxious to instruct them in the means of securing an inheritance there, than in the arts of amassing wealth, and acquiring distinction here?

Porteus. To the Inhab. of Manchester. AMATE. Skinner thinks from the German Mat, wearied, weak and Mat, Wachter says, is perhaps from Missen, to want, to be deprived of. But the A. S. Metan, somniare, to mete, to dream, presents a more satisfactory etymology.

To amate, is to dream, to be a dreamer; to be or make stupid, as a dreamer; senseless, as a mad-man, (A. S. Mat.)

There was no man that would take charge of a gally, the weather was so rough, and there was such an amasedness amongst them.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 134.

Heare O Israell, ye are come vnto battell, agenste yor enemyes let not your hartes faynte, nether feare, nor be amased nor adread of them.-Bible, 1539. Deuteron. c. 20.

For, as within that temple wide on euery thing he gazed,
And waited when the queene should come, and stood as
one amazed
To see the worke.
Phaer. Eneidos, D. i.

So that it was a marvellous pleasure, and likewise a dreadfull sight, to see the whole battle march together in order, at the sound of the pipes, and never to break their pace, nor confound their ranks, nor to be dismayed or amazed themselves, but to go on quietly and joyfully at the sound of their pipes, to hazard themselves even to death. North. Plutarch, p. 45.

Ariovistus' courage was well cooled, when he saw Cæsar was come, and that the Romans came to seek out the Germans; where they thought, and made account, that they durst not have abidden them: and therefore nothing mistrusting it would have come so to pass, he wondered much at Cæsar's courage, and the more when he saw his own army in a maze withall.-Id. Ib. p. 598.

But if ye saw that which no eyes can see,
The inward beauty of her lively spright,
Garnisht with heavenly guifts of high degree,
Much more then would ye wonder at that sight,
And stand astonisht lyke to those which red
Medusaes a mazeful hed.-Spenser. Epithalamion.
But why
Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?
Come sisters, cheere we vp his sprights,
And shew the best of our delights.

Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act iv. sc. 1. Vpon a sodaine, As Falstaffe, she, and I, are nevly met, Let them from forth a saw-pit rush at once With some diffused song: Vpon their sight We two, in great amazednesse, will flye.

Shakespeare. Merry Wives, Act iv. sc. 4. Amazednesse may abate an error of speech: it cannot take it away.-Bp. Hall. Cont. Transfiguration.

See if thou canst, without wonder and a kind of ecstatical amazement, behold the infinite goodness of thy God, that hath exalted thy wretchedness to no less than a blessed and indivisible union with the Lord of Glory.-Id. Christ Mystic.

The religion of such men usually consists more in an useless amazement of mind than in any real practice of virtue.-Clarke, vol. i. Ser. 28.

If we arise to the world of spirits, our knowledge of them must be amazingly imperfect, when there is not the least grain of sand but has too many difficulties belonging to it, for the wisest philosopher to answer.-Watts. Log. pt. i. c. 3.

Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her catholic credulity. Goldsmith. On Polite Learning.

Do not the French etonnement, and the English astonishment and amazement, point out as clearly the kindred emotions which attend fear and wonder?

Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful.

It [Gibbon's History] shews a large and comprehensive range of erudition, a range amazingly comprehensive and large. Whitaker. Review of Gibbon's History.

the breast.

AMAZON, n. Į It. Amazzone; Sp. Amazona; AMAZONIAN. Lat. Amazon, a, without, uaços, Applied to Women of masculine qualities; bold, daring, strong.

The Amazones aparell is such that it doth not cover all their garmets whiche they use to knitt up with a knott, their bodyes; for their brestes be bare on the left syde, and come not to their knees. One brest they always reserue untouched wherewith they nourished their woman children, but their right breastes, they use to seare, to make them more apt to drawe their bowes, and cast their dartes. Brende. Q. Curtius, fol. 149.

Our then Dictator,

Whom with all prayse I point at, saw him fight. When with his Amazonian shinne [chin] he drove The bizled [bristled] lippes before him.

Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act ii. sc. 2.

So march'd the Thracian Amazons of old,
When Thermodon with bloody billows rowl'd.
Dryden. Virgil, b. xi.

So round their queen, Hippolyte the fair,
Or bold Penthesile's refulgent car,
Move the triumphant Amazonian train,

In bright array, exulting, to the plain.-Pitt. Id. Ib.

AMBA'GES, n. Ambeages (says Vossius); ambe, from uμpi, around, and agere, to drive. (See AMBIGUITY.) See the quotation from Chaucer. Ambiguities of speech, subterfuges, evasions. And but if Calcas lede us with ambages, That is to saine, with double words slie Such as men clepe a word with two visages Ye shal wel knowen that I nat ne lie. Chaucer. Troil. & Cress. b. v.

Howell, b. i. s. 5. Let. 38. But he that serves the Lord of Hoasts Most High, And that in highest place t'approach him nigh, And all the peoples prayers to present Before his throne, as on ambassage sent Both to and fro, should ne deserve to weare A garment better, than of wooll or heare. Spenser. Mother Hubbard's Tale. alliance, seems to be the reason, that Hezekiah shewed To make the Babylonians put a greater value upon his those ambassadors from them, all the riches of his house, his treasures, his armoury, and all his stores and strength for war.-Prideaux. Connections, pt. i. b. i.

Loth. Well, my ambassadress, what must we treat of? Come you to menace war and brave defiance? Or does the peaceful olive grace your message?

Rowe. Fair Penitent, Act i.

The commerce of the Turkey company first occasioned the establishment of an ordinary ambassador at Constantinople. The first English embassies to Russia arose altogether from commercial interests.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. I.

and ire.) See AMBIENT.

A going round (to solicit places of honour); and, consequentially—

A desire to obtain honour, popular applause, power, command.

If the bishoppes of Rome in olde times refused this name [universal bishop], not for wante of righte, but onely, as M. Hardinge saithe, of humilitie, wherefore then did theire successours, that folowed afterwarde, so ambitiously laboure to geate the same?-Jewel. Defence of the Apologie, p. 118.

And ground & cause, why that men so striue Is couetise, and false ambicion

That euerich would haue dominacion Ouer other, and tread him vnder foot Which of all sorow, ginning is the root.

Why doest thou then permitte these proud homicides and spightfull murtherers to defyle them with their errours, and blaspheme them with their lyes: Kylling vp thy serdants without pittie, for holdynge with them, and reigning heere as gods vpon earth in ambiciousnesse, vayne glory, pompe, glotony, and lecherye, with other abhominable vices.

Bale. Image of both Churches, pt. i. Ambition is like choler, which is an humour that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacritie and stirring, if it be not stopped. But if it be stopped, and cannot have way, it So becometh adust, and thereby maligne and venomous. ambitious men, if they finde the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busie than dangerous; but if they be checkt in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and looke upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased when things go backward: which is the worst property in a servant of a prince or state.

Bacon. Essay on Ambition.

If a man be ambitious, he will not approve that doctrine, which prohibiteth us to affect, to seek, to admit glory, or to doe any thing for its sake, but purely to seek God' honour, and in all our actions, to regard it as our princip aim.-Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 1.

Upon an ambler esily she sat,
Ywimpled wel, and on hire hede an hat,
As brode as is a bokeler, or a targe.

Id. The Prol. Wif of Bathe.

And thus after hir lordes graunt,
Upon a mule white amblant
Foorth with a fewe rode this quene.-Gower. Con. A. b.ii.

And as she caste hir eie aboute
She sigh clad in one sute a route
Of ladies, where thei comen ride
A longe vnder the woodde side,
On fayre ambulende hors thei set,
That were all white, fayre and great,

And eurichone ride on side.-Id. Ib. b. iv.

But I, that am not shap'd for sportive trickes,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glasse:
I, that am rudely stampt, and want loue's maiesty,
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph.
Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act i. sc. 1.

And this is true whether they move per latera, that is, two legs of one side together, which is tollutation or ambling; or per diametrum, lifting one foot before, and the cross foot behind, which is succussation or trotting.

Sir T. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 6.

Socrates also and Zozomen inform us, that this was the ancient custom; shewing, that St. John Chrysostom was the first that preached in the ambo, or reading desk of the church, by reason of the multitude of people that crouded

up to hear him.

Sir. G. Wheler. Acc. of the Churches of the Prim. Chris. The choir commences about the centre of the nave, and extends to the steps of the sanctuary; there are two pulpits, called anciently ambones, one on each side of the choir. Eustace. A Classical Tour through Italy, c. 3. AMBROSIA, n. AMBRO'SIACK. AMBROSIAL.

Fr. Ambroisie; It. Ambrosia; Sp. Ambrosia; Lat. Ambrosia, Gr. Αμβροσια, from a, not, and ẞporos,

AMBROSIAN.

mortal. Applied by classic writers to

The food of the immortals; and, consequentially, to

Any thing exquisitely grateful to the senses of taste and smell.

Disguised in cloud obscure, this hearbe dame Venus thither brings,

And into water vessels bright it secretly she flings, And steeping large thereof she makes, the vertue forth to take

And of ambrosies wholesome iucie, thereto doth sprinkling shake,

Wherto she addes the fragrant sap that Panex soote doth make. Twyn. Virgile. Eneidos, b. xii.

This Venus brings, in clouds involv'd; and brews
Th' extracted liquor with ambrosian dews,
And od'rous Panacee: unseen she stands,
Temp'ring the mixture with her heavenly hands:
And pours it in a bowl, already crown'd

With juice of medc'nal herbs prepar'd to bathe the wound.

Dryden. Ib.

And, as I wondering look'd, beside it stood
One shap'd and wing'd like one of those from heaven,
By us oft seen; his dewy locks distill'd
Ambrosia; on that tree he also gaz'd.

Millon. Paradise Lost, b. v.

Herm. Here is beauty for the eye;
Cris. For the ear sweet melody;
Herm. Ambrosiac odours for the smell;
Cris. Delicious nectar for the taste.

B. Jonson. Poetaster, Activ. sc. 3.
Thus while God spake, ambrosial fragance fill'd
All heaven, and in the blessed spirits elect
Sense of new joy ineffable diffus'd.-Mitton. Par.Lost,b iii.
Your looks, your smiles, and thoughts that meet
Ambrosian hands and silver feet,
Do promise you will do't.

B. Jonson. Masques. Chorus of Sea-gods.
See ALMONRY.

A/MBRY.

If thou wilt anatomize and open thy selfe, thou shalt find within, a save, an ambry, nay, a storehouse and treasurie (as Democritus saith) of many evils and maladies, and those of divers and sundry sorts.-Holland. Plutarch's Morals.

To ambush, is to hide in a bush, or wood, (for the purpose of surprising an enemy;) and then applied, literally and metaphorically, to

Any mode of concealment to effect a stratagem. In Robert of Brunne are found busse and enbusse, bussement and embussement. Chaucer writes Emboyssement. See EMBUSH.

Julius the emperour with strong power y nowg,
Two ger aftur the bataile, to Engelond ageyn drow,
And thougte sle al that folk, and wynne this kyndom,
Ac he caste ther of ambes, as tho he to londe com.
R. Gloucester, p. 51.
Saladyn priuely was bussed beside the flom.

R. Brunne. p. 187.
& alle that suerd mot bere, or other wapen weld,
Were sette R. to dere, enbussed thorgh the feld.-Id.
Leulyn in a wod a bussement he held.-Id. p. 242.
Saladyn did stoppe the dikes kank & bro,
That non suld ouer hoppe, ne man ne hors suld go
Thorgh that enbussement, that was so priuely.-Id. p. 187.
In secret ambush I, in yonder wood, in place not wide,
That so both wayes I may besidge, my selfe entend to hide.
Twyn. Virgile Eneidos, b. vii.
Hugh earle of the marches of Poictou, comming by the
French king's direction to remoue Earle Richard and the
English from the siege of the Riol, was with all his forces
intercepted by an ambuscado, and discomfited with no small
losse of men, munition, and carriages.

Speed. Hist. of Great Britain, an. 1226.

By the way, at Radgee Mahal, he was with such fury assaulted by Ebrahimean (by this time re-encouraged and here ambuscado'd with six thousand horse) that little wanted of putting him to the rout.-Sir T. Herbert. Travels, p. 85. I haue on Angelo impos'd the office, Who may in th' ambush of my name, strike home. Shakespeare. Meas. for Meas. Act i. Againe great dole on either partie grewe, That him to death unfaithfull Paris sent; And also him that false Ulysses slewe, Drawne into danger through close ambushment. Spenser. Virgil's Gnat.

Far from the town two shaded hills arise, And lose their adverse summits in the skies: One side is bounded by the grove's embrace; A mountain's brow o'erhangs the middle space. The nature of the place, and gloomy site, Seem'd formed for ambuscade, and deeds of night. Lewis. Statius, b. ii. A'MEL, n. Amyled, I believe, for enamelled, A'MELLED. (qv.) says Skinner. In German, Schmelzen; Dutch, Smelten; from the more ancient A. S. Myltan, Meltan, to melt. In English also we have, to smelt; i. e. to melt. It is used met. by Lupset, melted.

And with a bend of gold tassiled And knoppes fine of gold amiled.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. Whosoever hath his mynd inwardly amiled, baken, and through fired with the love of God.

Lupset. Workes. Of Charite, p. 4. Below her ham her weed did somewhat trayne, And her streight legs most bravely were embayld In gilden buskins of costly cord wayne, All bard with golden bendes, which were entayld With curious antickes, and full fayre aumayld. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 3. Ye matchless stars (yet each the other's match) Heav'n's richest diamonds, set in amel white, From whose bright spheres all grace the graces catch, And will not move but by your loadstars bright.

P. Fletcher. Purple Island, c. 11. Sweet are thy banks! Oh, when shall I once more, With ravish'd eyes, review thine amell'd shore! Philips, Past. 2. AMELIORATE, v. Į Fr. Améliorer; Low AMELIORATION. Lat. Ameliorari, melius valere, says Du Cange. Lat. Melior, Melius, that

which is more willed, more wished for, more desired.

To make more desirable, to better, to mend, to improve.

This word, though frequent in speech, is not of common occurrence in good writers. See ME

LIORATE.

I never saw a scene more pleasing to the eye, or more satisfactory to the mind of every person that feels himself interested in the welfare of his fellow-creatures; his humanity must exult at the probability of their lot being so much ameliorated.-Swinburne. Tr. through Spain, Let. 36.

The class of proprietors contributes to the annual produce, by the expense which they may occasionally lay out upon the improvement of the land, upon the buildings, drains, inclosures, and other ameliorations, which they may either make or maintain upon it; and by means of which the cultivators are enabled, with the same capital, to raise a greater produce, and consequently to pay a greater rent. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 9.

A'MEN, interj., Heb. and thence the Greek Auŋy, used in Scripture, and still preserved in our different Christian churches at the conclusion of prayer: it signifies assent and desire, as, verily; so be it; or so it ought to be. In this sense it exists, with little alteration as to sound, in the languages of most countries where Christianity has been known.

For if thou expresse and syng furth the prayses of God with a language, which no man knoweth, how shall the unlearned, which auns wereth in steade of the people, make auns were with the vsed woorde, Amen, when thou haste ended thy prayer of thankes: for by puttying this woorde at the ende, that is confirmed, whiche was spoken before in prayers or hymnes.-Udal. 1 Epistle to the Corinth. c. 14.

Macb. One cry'd God blesse vs, and amen the other, As they had seene me with these hangman's hands: Listning their feare, I could not say amen, When they did say God blesse vs.

Lady. Consider it not so deepely.

Macb. But wherefore could not I pronounce, amen? I had most need of blessing, and amen

Stuck in my throat.-Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act ii. sc. 2. Far be it from him to entertain so uncharitable thoughts of us; as if we durst not trust God on his word, though but once spoken. We know him to be amen; and that repetitions add nothing to plain truths.

Bp. Hall. Censure of Travel. AME'NABLE. The Italian Menare, and Fr. Mener, are derived, by Menage, from the Latin Minare; pellere, to drive. Vossius writes largely upon the etymology of Minare, but unsatisfactorily. Wachter, (in v. Mine) is persuaded that it is of Celtic origin (sc.), from Menn, a place; and that Minare is nothing else than to move from place to place. Fr. Amener, is to bring or lead unto, to fetch in or to, (Cotgrave.)

Amenable then may mean that may be moved, brought sc. to answer inquiries, to account for actions; or may it not rather be subject to the jurisdiction of a Mesne Lord: to be summoned before him, adjudged by him: and then, generally, subject to trial or examination.