AME

Fr. Amender; It. Emendare; Sp. Emendar; Lat. Emendare, e and menda, a fault, a deficiency, which Vossius thinks is from the Greek Mevov, minus. To free from deficiency, fault, or blemish; to repair, to correct, to improve, to reform, to recover; to correct, to chasten, or chastise.

AMEND, v.
AMENDER, R.
AME NDFUL.
AMENDMENT.
AME'NDS.

Breys wille al clene was ys lond for to amende.
And aftur all this to Wynchestre from Londone he wende,
For to amende thilke syde, & so & so to Salusbury.
And so, for to amende more, to the towne of Ambresbury.
R. Gloucester, p. 144.

Sir ert thou not ferd of wreche of Gode's ire,
That thou wilt werre bigynne, without amendment,
Agryn God don synne, ageyn holy kirke has went?
I rede thou mak amendes of that grete misdede.
R. Brunne, p. 291.

Now hit a thynketh me in thouht. that evere ich so
Wroughte

Lerd er ich lyf lete. for love of thy selve
Graunt me good lorde. grace of amendement.

Piers Ploukman, p. 92. Lo Pilate axynge bifore you fynde no cause in this man these thingis, in whiche ye accusen him; neither Eroude, fr Le hath sent him agen to us, and lo nothing worthi of deeth is don to him. And therfor I schal amende him and delyuere him.--Wiclif. Luke, c. 23.

And he axide of hem the our in which he was amendid: and thei seiden to him, fro yistirday in the seventhe our the fecere lefte him.-Id. John, c. 4.

Poverte is hateful good; and, as I gesse,

A ful gret bringer out of besinesse;

A gret amender eke of sapience

To him, that taketh it in patience.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6780. Certes, all thise thinges ben defended by God and holy chirche, for which they ben accursed, till they come to amendement, that on swiche filth set hir beleve. Id. The Persones Tale.

O mighty lorde toward my vice
Thy mercy medle with iustice,
And I woll make a couenant,
That of my life the remenant

I shall it by thy grace amende.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.

A hart well stay'd, in overthwartes deepe,
Hopeth amendes; in swete, doth feare the sowre.
Surrey. Prayse of Meane Estate.
Ede. Now brother Richard, Lord Hastings, and the rest,
Yet thus farre fortune maketh vs amends,
And saves, that once more I shall enterchange
My wained state, for Henries regall crowne.

Shakespeare. 3 Part Henry VI. Act iv. sc. 7.
Ral. Away with him, hence, hail him straight to execution.
Aab. Far flye such rigour, your amendful hand.
Rol. He perishes with him that speaks for him.

Beaum. & Fletch. Bloody Brother, Act iii.
Then let us seek

Some safer resolution, which methinks
I have in view, calling to minde with heed
Part of our sentence, that thy seed shall bruise
The serpent's head; piteouse amends.

AME

Another [humilitie of mouth] is, when he preiseth the bountee of another man and nothing thereof amenuseth.

Chaucer. The Persones Tale. The thridde [the spice of envy] is to amenuse the bountee of his neighbour.-Id. Ib.

Lat. Merces; A merendo, says Vossius, after Varro; or AMERCIAMENT. and Merere, whence Merendo, from the Gr. Mepos, a part or share. MERCE, and MERCY.

See

By the ancient law, punishments affecting life or limb, were remitted upon payment of a fine (merci). To be subject to fine was to be subject to merci, or to be amerced.

To take a portion, or share, of money, or goods; to impose a fine, or penalty; to exact a recompense; to punish,

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x.

mes! and newness of life: even so we also should walk in arwness of life.-Clarke, vol. i. Ser. 54.

And thurgh this cursed sinne of avarice and coveitise cometh thise hard lordships, thurgh which men ben distreined by tallages, customes, and cariages, more than hir dutee or reason is: and eke take they of hir bondmen amercementes, which might more reasonably be called extortions than amercementes.-Id. The Persones Tale.

What worse to Cymon could his fortune deal,
Roll'd to the lowest spoke of all her wheel?
It rested to dismiss the downward weight,
Or raise him upward to his former height;
The latter pleas'd; and love (concern'd the most)
Prepar'd th' amends, for what by love he lost.
Dryden. Cym. & Iph.
The courts, where justice requires it, will allow of amend-
mata, at any time while the suit is depending.
Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 25.
AMENITY. Amanus, which Festus thinks so
called, because it allures to the love of itself (ad se
amandum.)

AME/RCE, v.
AME'RCEMENT,

They ben clerkes, her courts they overse

Her poore tenaunce fully they slite

The hier that a man amerced be

The gladlier they woll it write.-Chaucer. Plouhman's Tale.

Pleasantness, sweetness, agreeableness. G. Douglas, and other Scotch writers, use the adjective Amene.

If the situation of Babylon were such at first as it was in the dayes of Herodotus; it was rather a seat of amenity and pleasure, then conducing unto this intention.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 6. AMENUSE, v. Lat. Minuere, Imminuere, to lessen; Fr. Amenuiser, to minish, to lessen, to make little, to diminish.

I have an interest in your hearts proceeding:
My blood for your rude brawles doth lie a bleeding.
But ile amerce you with so strong a fine,
That you shall all repent the losse of mine.

Shakespeare. Romeo & Juliet, Act iii. sc. 1.

At the same time all the sheriffes of England were amerced, because they had not distreined all those which had such estates in land, as the law limiteth, to take the order of knighthood, or pay their fines.

Speed. Hist. of Gt. Britain, Hen. III. an. 1255.

If the killing be out of any vill, the hundred is amerceable for the escape.-Hale. Pleas of the Crown, xi. 10.

They [the sheriffs] assumed such liberty to themselves, as
to seise the issues and profits of their baylwick, and convert
them to their own use, with all other debts, fines, and
amercements, within the said county.
Fuller. Worthies. Northumberland.

The pearl, th' empurpled amethyst, and all
The various gems, which India's mines afford
To deck the pomp of kings.-Glover. Leonidas, b. iv.
A'MIABLE.
A'MIABLY.
AMIABILITY.

A'MIABLENESS.
A'MICABLE.

A'MICABLENESS.
A'MICABLY.
ing; delightful.

Amicable is more immediately derived from
Amicus, one who can love; a friend.

For, as sayth Salomon, the amiable tonge is the tree of lif; that is to say, of lif spirituel.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

μεou, wine; restraining from wine.

Applied as the name of a certain jewel, ac-
cording to Pliny, because it resists drunkenness;
See the
an opinion which Plutarch rejects.
quotation from him.

Fr. Amiable; It. Amicabile, Amiabile, Amichevole; Sp. Amigable; Lat. Amabilis, from Am-are, to love.

That may be loved; lovely; causing love; causing any pleasing emotion; charm

Then drest by thee, more amiably fair,
Truth the soft robe of mild persuasion wears :
Thou to assenting reason giv'st again
Her own enlighten'd thoughts.-Thomson. Winter.
Xerxes was declared the successor, though not so much

The apostle here [Rom. vi. 3, 4.] supposes that the great

end and design of the gospel, is to bring men to amend- thystus; Gr. Auelvoтos, non ebrius, a priv. and by the strength of his plea, as by the influence which his

As for the amethyst, as well the herb as the stone of that name, they who think that both the one and the other is so called, because they withstand drunkennesse, miscount themselves, and are deceived: for in truth, both are named so of the colour: and as for the leafe of the herb, it hath no fresh and lively hew, but resembleth a winelesse weak wine, as one may say, that either drinketh flat and hath lost the colour, or else is much delayed with water.

Holland. Plutarch's Morals, p. 560.

And if a manne were in distresse,

And for her loue in heuinesse,

Her hert would haue full great pitie,

She was so amiable and free.-Id. Rom. of the Rose.

The strength also of the spirite cötinually encreaced in him, daily more and more shewyng it self foorth in his countenaunce, in his passe, in his talk, and in his doynges: in all whiche there was not so muche as any one puincte, but it was euen full of the spirite of mildenesse and humilitie, of chastitee, of amiablenesse, and of godly zele.-Id. Ib. c.4.

He had a most amiable countenance, which carried in it something of magnanimity and maiesty mixt with sweetenesse, that at the same time bespoke love and awe in all that saw him.-Memoirs of Col. Hutchinson, vol. i. p. 34.

Pen. Alack, alack, his lips be wondrous cold;
Dear soul, he's lost his colour: have ye seen
A straying heart? all crannies, every drop
Of blood is turned to an amethyst,
Which married bachelors hang in their ears.
Ford. Broken Heart, Activ. sc. 2.
From thee the sapphire, solid ether, takes
Its hue cerulean; and, of evening tinct,
The purple streaming amethyst is thine.

Amiablenesse is the obiect of love: the scope and end is to obtain it, for whose sake we loue, and which our minde couets to enjoy.-Burton. Anat. of Melancholy, p. 408,

Now for whatsoever we can love any one, for that we can be his friend; and since every excellency is a degree of amiability, every such worthiness is a just and proper motive of friendship or loving conversation.

Bp. Taylor. On Friendship.

As for those differences concerning predestination, which Arminius and his followers have borrowed from the Lutheran divines, the divines of both parts, in that amicable conference at Leipsic, professed their agreement in all the main and important parts.-Id. Peace-Maker.

Thomson. Summer. When I caused it to be kept, I know not how long, in a glass-house fire, came out in the figure its lumps had, when put in, though altered to an almost amethystine colour. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 513.

Even those, that break the peace, cannot but praise it: how much more should they bid for it, that are true friends to it; and to that amicableness, that attends it!-Id. Ib.

There is nothing more amiable in nature, than the character of a truly good man: a man, whose principal business and pleasure it is to make all men easy with whom he has any concern, in the present life, and to promote as far as in him lies, their happiness likewise in that which is to come.

Clarke, vol. i. Ser. 43.

A'MICE. In A. S. Amet; clothed, apparelled, (Somner.) Fr. Amict; It. Ammitto; Sp. Amito, from Lat. Amictus, past part. of Amicire, to clothe. The Fr. Aumasse; It. Almucia; Lat. Almucia, derived by Menage from Amicire, and by Wachter from Ger. Mutze, a covering of the head, from Meiden, to cover, appears to have been a different article of dress. See Menage, Du Cange, and Spelman.

Amice is particularly applied to the first of the six vestments common to the bishop and presbyters, which was fastened round the neck, and spread round the shoulders.

We shall not much repine at a loss, of which we cannot estimate the value, but of which, though we are not able to tell the least amount, we know with sufficient certainty the greatest, and are convinced that the greatest is not much to be regretted.-Rambler, No. 17.

AMPHIBIOUS. Fr. Amphibie; It. Anfibio; Sp. Amphibio, from the Gr. Aμp, about, on each side, and Bios, life. Aupi, from its application to that which is unfixed, undefined in space or time, is further applied to that which is uncertain,

Nay, hang not on me.
Dry, dry thy tears, they've done their office amply:
Edgar has pardon'd him.
Mason. Elfrida.

Having no talents for amplification, and love, moreover of all others, being a subject of which he was the least a master,-when he had told Mrs. Wadman once that he lov'd her, he let it alone.-Sterne. Tristram Shandy.

AMPLEXATION. Lat. Amplexari, from Amplectere, to embrace (am, around, plectere, to hold together.)

An embrace.

The angels were bright and glorious, thy appearance was homely; thy habit meane; yet when she heard thy voice, she turns her back upon the angels, and salutes thee with a Rabboni, and falls down before thee, in desire of an humble amplexation of those sacred feet which she now rejoyces to see past the use of her odors.

Bp. Hall. Contem. The Resurrection.

A/MPUTATE. Į Fr. Amputer; It. Ampu-
AMPUTATION. Stare; Sp. Amputor; Lat.
Amputare, (am, and putare,) to pare round, to cut
away.

To cut off.

Among the cruisers in private frigates from Dunkirk, it was complained, that their chirurgeons were too active in amputating those fractured members.

Wiseman. Chirurgical Treatises, b. vi. c. 5.

But they that truly understand amputation and their trade, well know how villainous a thing it is to glory in such a work.-Id. Ib.

Nor was this [using of the right hand] onely in use with divers nations of men, but was the custom of whole nations of women; as is deduceable from the Amazons, in the amputation of their right breasts, whereby they had the freer use of their bow.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 5.

The gospel does most certainly require us to renounce some things, which the man of the world may not be very willing to part with. But to accuse the gospel of severity on this account, would be just as rational and as equitable, as to charge the surgeon with cruelty for ampulating a gangrened limb.-Porteus, vol. ii. Ser. 1.

Admitting the same doctrine of an original body, we must, however, observe, that living men may lose several of their limbs by amputation.—Beattie. El. of Moral Sciences, App. A/MULET. Fr. Amulette; Sp. Amuleto; Lat. Amuletum, from Amoliri, Amolitus, (from a and moles, a heap or mass,) to heave away, to drive away, to repel.

That which throws off, expels, repels, wards off, any evil or mischance; and, further, that

confers some charm.

If amulets do work from their bodies, upon those parts
whereunto they are appended, and are not yet observed to
abate their weight; if they produce visible and real effects
by imponderous and invisible emissions, it may be unjust to
deny the possible efficacy of gold in the non-emission of
weight, or deperdition of any ponderous particles.
Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 5.
In that day will the Lord take from them the ornaments,
Of the feet-rings, and the net-works, and the crescents;
The pendents, and the bracelets, and the thin vails;
The tires, and the fetters, and the zones,
And the perfume-boxes, and the amulets.-Lowth. Isaiah.

S

AMU'SIVE. hence-
AMU'SIVELY. To follow the Muses, to be
contemplative or thoughtful as one who follows
the Muses; to meditate, dwell upon, to keep the
mind fixed, or employed upon. See To MUSE.

To engage contemplatively, soothingly, with slight or quiet gratification; to divert; to lull; to play upon, to delude.

Suffrynge youreselues to be deceyued throughe the volupte
and delectation of youre eares, as they do, that amuse them-
selfe sonner to heare the sophistes and logycyans to dispute,
than to heare speake of the affaires of the cytie.
Nicolls. Thucydides, fol. 80.

One day he [Alcibiades] knocked at Pericles his doore, and answer was made him that he was not at leisure to be spoken with, for that he studied and was amused how to render up his accounts to the Athenians of their money. Holland. Plutarch, p. 345.

To whom thus Belial, in like gamesome mood.
Leader! the terms we sent were terms of weight,
Of hard contents, and full of force urg'd home;
Such as we might perceive amus'd them all,
And stumbled many.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi.

Here I put my pen into the ink-horn: and fell into a strong and deep amusement, revolving in my mind with great perplexity the amazing change of our affairs.

Fleetwood. Pref. Lay Baptism.

Reason would.contrive such a religion as should afford both sad and solemn objects to amuse and affect the pensive part of the soul.-South, vol. vii. Ser. 1.

Men are generally pleased with the pomp and splendor of a government, not only as it is an amusement for idle people, but as it is a mark of the greatness, honour, and riches of their country.-Sir W. Temple. On the United Provinces.

Lofty elms and venerable oaks
Invite the rook, who high amid the boughs
In early spring his airy city builds,

And ceaseless caws amusive.-Thomson. Spring.

Wide o'er the thistly lawn, as swells the breeze,
A whitening shower of vegetable down
Amusice floats.
Id. Summer.
muring amusicely among the pines.
A south-easterly wind succeeded, blowing fresh and mur-

Chandler. Travels into Greece, p. 12.

If this individual be unknown, or perceived now for the first time, or if we choose to speak of it as unknown, we

prefix what is called the indefinite article, and say, here

comes a man, I see an ox: and this article coincides nearly in signification with the word one.

Beattie. Elements of Moral Science, pt. i. c. 1. AN. The imperative An of the verb Anan, to grant, (Tooke.)

An if, An if it were, are vulgar improprieties. An is equivalent to If.

Is not this An the A. S. termination of the infinitive (i. e. the verb); afterwards changed into en e. g. A. S. Luf-an; Eng. Lov-en: and is not this en the termination, adjected, and constituting the participle or verb adjective, the noun adjective, the plural of nouns; and always denoting addiFr. Muser, Amuser; perhaps tion, adjection, adjunction? And further, may not AMUSEMENT. from the Lat. Musa:

AMU'SE, v.

and

this An be the preceding An, one, applied first to the addition of one, to one, to union, adunion, or adunation; to addition, &c. generally?

The anchorites in our dayes, closed up, and immured, either within walls, or pillars, are often found to be long lived-Bacon. Hist. of Life and Death.

No man needs to flatter, if he can live as nature did intend..... And this is true, not only in those severe and anchoretical and philosophical persons, who lived Meanly as a sheep, and without variety as the Baptist, but a the same proportion it is also true in every man that can be contented with that which is honestly sufficient. Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 15.

A few Anacreontics surprize us by their ease and gaiety.
Hume. Hist. vol. vii. Character of Cowley.

Our Saviour himself, the great author of our faith, and exemplar of our piety, did not chuse an anchorite's or a monastique life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals.-Boyle. Occasional Reflections, s. 4. Dis. 9.

He [George Ripley] turned Carmelite at Saint Botolph's, in Lincolnshire, and died an anachorite in that fraternity in the year 1490.-Warton. Hist. of Eng. Poetry, vol. i. p. 137.

ANAGOGY. Gr. Αναγωγη, from Αναγειν, ANAGO'GICKS. i. e. ava aye, to lead, or ANAGO'GICAL. draw upwards. Applied toANAGO'GICALLY. The withdrawing, or abstraction, the rising or elevation of the mind to the contemplation of things; lofty, exalted, recondite, mysterious.

The virgin-huntress sworn to Dian's bow,
Here in this shade her quarries did bestow,
And for their nymphals, building amorous bowers,
Oft drest this tree with anadems of flowers.-Drayton. Owl.
Nor from the hill
Walla is now no more.
Will she more plucke for thee the daffodill,
Nor make sweet anadems to gird thy brow:
Yet in the grove she runs; a river now.

Browne. Brit. Pastorals, b. ii. s. 3.

All the changes that are in nature, are either accidental transformations and different modifications of the same substance, or else they are conjunctions and separations, or anagrammatical transpositions of things in the universe; the substance of the whole remaining alwaies entirely the same. Cudworth. Intel. System, p. 37.

They deuide the Scripture into foure senses, the litterall, tropological, allegoricall and anagogicall.

Yet these [conceits] are exceeded by others, whereof some have contrived anagrammatical appellations from half their own and their wives' names joined together.

Swift. On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland. [Robert Fludd hath] published [a book], under the name of Rudolfi Otreb, that is, anagrammatically, Roberti Flud. Wood. Athene Oxon. When the anagrammatist, takes a name to work upon, he considers it at first as a mine not broken up, which will not shew the treasure it contains, until he shall have spent many hours in the search of it; for it is his business to find out one word that conceals itself in another, and to examine the letters in all the variety of stations in which they can possibly be ranged.-Spectator, No. 60.

Tyndall. Workes, p. 166. The allegory is appropriate to fayth, and the anagogicall to hope and thinges aboue.-Id. Ib.

Three points being well examined and marked, the Prophecie may easily be vnderstood directly to be ment of the Turke; albeit anagogically some part thereof may also be referred not vnproperly unto the pope, as is aboue notified. Fox. Actes & Monum. Hen. VII. p. 704.

ANALOGIZE. Fr. Analogie; It. Analogia; ANA'LOGY. Sp. Analogia; Lat. Analogia; ANALOGICAL. Gr. Avaλoyia, from ava, and ANALOGICALLY. λόγος. Latine, says Cicero, ANA'LOGOUS. Comparatio, proportiove dici ANA'LOGAL. potest. ANA'LOGOUSLY. Our application of these words must be collected from the examples subjoined. See the quotation from Berkeley.

He calleth still the Lordes body the congregation redemed with Christes body as he dyd before, and also in the chapter folowyng fetching his analogie and similitude at the naturall body.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 473.

But for all other passages, which by some kind of accommodation, or anagogy, or figure, or moral or spiritual sense, were capable of being thus applied either to Christ or his church, I have not frequently chosen to be thus adventurous.-Hammond. Pref. to Parap. of Psalms.

The notes say, that the Misna Torah was composed out
of the cabalisticks or anagogicks of the Jews.
Addison. State of the Jews, p. 248.

A'NAGRAM.
Fr. Anagramme; It.
ANAGRAMMATICAL. Anagramma; Sp. Ana-
ANAGRAMMATICALLY.
Lat. Ana-
gramma;
ANAGRAMMATISM.
gramma. From Ava and
ANAGRAMMATISE.
Ypapua, a letter, from
ANAGRAMMATIZE.
Ypapew, to write.
Ap-
plied to-
The transposition of the letters of words so as
to form other words of a different signification.
See the quotation from Camden.

Ren. And see where Juno, whose great name
Is Unio, in the anagram,
Displays her glittering state and chair,

As she enlightened all the air!-B.Jonson. Mas, of Hymen.

First, Albion is no latin word, nor hath the analogie, that is to say, the proportion or similitude of latine, for who hath found this sillable on, at the ende of a latin word?

Grafton, pt. iv. Analogal to the imperate acts of the soul upon the body are the imperate acts of divine Providence whereby with greatest wisdom and irresistible power He doth mediately or immediately order some things out of the tract of ordinary Providence.-Hale. Origination of Mankind, p. 36.

Now the Manichees allowed marriage to their auditors, that is, analogically, their laity, forbad it to their electe, that is, their clergy.-Hall. Hon. of the Married Clergy, s. 4.

Quadrupeds oviparous, as frogs, lizards, crocodiles, have their joynts and motive flexures more analogously framed unto ours.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 1.

The only quintessence that hitherto the alchymy of wit
could draw out of names, is Anagrammatisme, or Meta-
grammatisme, which is a dissolution of a name, truly
written, into its letters as its elements, and a new con-
nexion of it by artificial transposition, without addition,
subtraction, or change of any letter into different words,
making some perfect sense applyable to the person named.
Camden. Remains. Anagrammes.
The whole system of the created universe, consisting of
body, and particular incorporeal substances or souls, in the
successive generations and corruptions or deaths, of men
and other animals, was, according to them [the ancient
atomists], really nothing else but one and the same thing
perpetually anagrammatized, or but like many different
syllables and words variously and successively composed
out of the same pre-existent elements or letters.
Cudworth. Intel. System, p. 40.

Every one knows that analogy is a Greek word, used by mathematicians to signify a similitude of proportions. For instance, when we observe that two is to six, as three is to nine, this similitude or equality of proportion is termed analogy.-Bp. Berkeley. Minute Philo. Dis. 4. § 21.

The schoolmen tell us there is analogy between intellect and sight; forasmuch as, intellect is to the mind, what sight is to the body. And that he who governs the state is ana logous to him who steers a ship. Hence a prince is analogically stiled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to the vessel.-Id. Ib.

It is not impossible, but extremely probable, and according to the universal analogy of nature, that our planets and their satellites should be the more tolerable jails, prisons, and dungeons, of the several orders and degrees of lapsed, probationary, sentient, and intelligent beings.

Cheyne. On Regimen. Natural Analogy, § 8. Systems of material bodies, diversly figured and situated, if separately considered, represent the object of the desire, which is analogized by attraction or gravitation.-Id.

We have words which are proper, and not analogical, to express the various ways in which we perceive external objects by the senses; such as feeling, sight, taste: but we are often obliged to use these words analogically, to express other powers of the mind which are of a very different nature.--Reid. Inquiry into the Human Mind, c. 7.