different between amens vs amend

English

Noun

amens

1. plural of amen

Verb

amens

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amen

Anagrams

• Means, Mensa, Seman, manes, manse, means, mensa, mesna, names, namés, neams, ñames

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??m?ns/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a?m?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns

Adjective

amens

1. plural of amè

French

Noun

amens m

1. plural of amen

Latin

Etymology

Derived from ?- (“out of, away”) +? m?ns (“mind”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?.mens/, [?ä?m??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.mens/, [???m?ns]

Adjective

?m?ns (genitive ?mentis, comparative ?mentior, superlative ?mentissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. frenzied, mad
2. frantic, distracted
3. (Medieval Latin) insane, demented

See also

• d?m?ns

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Descendants

• Italian: amente
• Spanish: amente

Citations

• Publius Ovidius Naso, Tristia. In: Ovid with an English translation, Tristia • Ex Ponto, by Arthur Leslie Wheeler, 1939, p. 110f.:

  quin etiam sic me dicunt aliena locutum,
  ut foret amenti nomen in ore tuum.

  Nay more, they say that when I talked strange things, 'twas so that your name was on my delirious lips.

References

• amens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• amens in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ?mend? (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??m?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

amend (third-person singular simple present amends, present participle amending, simple past and past participle amended)

1. (transitive) To make better; improve.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece,^[1]

     Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee;

     Mar not the thing that cannot be amended.

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 13,^[2]

     We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
2. (intransitive) To become better.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend.
4. (obsolete, intransitive) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,^[3]

     Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls

     That stay his cure: their malady convinces

     The great assay of art; but at his touch—

     Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand—

     They presently amend.

5. (transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
   • 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article III, Section 23, p. 46,^[4]

     The following motions cannot be amended:

   • 1990, Doug Hoyle, Hansard, Trade Union Act, 1984, Amendment no. 2, 4 July, 1990,^[5]

     It is necessary to amend the Act to preserve the spirit in which it was first passed into law […]

Synonyms

• ameliorate
• correct
• improve
• See also Thesaurus:improve
• See also Thesaurus:repair

Related terms

Translations

Noun

amend (plural amends)

1. (usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation.

References

• amend at OneLook Dictionary Search
• amend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• amend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Edman, Mande, Medan, ad-men, admen, deman, maned, menad, named