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r offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life. Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite. Milton. The pound he tamed, the penitent he cheered. Dryden.

A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.

To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to recommend. Jer. Taylor.

Paltry; mean; pitiful. "Piteous amends." Milton.

Applauding; commending.

Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

y religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as contrasted with mendicant friars. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Fit to be praised; praise-worthy; laudable; commendable. Wyclif (2 Tim. ii. 15).

To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts. "I praise well thy wit." Chaucer. Let her own works praise her in the gates. Prov. xxxi. 31. We praise not Hector, though his name, we know, Is great in arms; 't is hard to praise a foe. Dryden.

Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy. Arbuthnot.

To advise or recommend earnestly. My master preaches patience to him. Shak. To preach down, to oppress, or humiliate by preaching. Tennyson. -- To preach up, to exalt by preaching; to preach in support of; as, to preach up equality.

Suppliant; beseeching. Bp. Hopkins. Precatory words (Law), words of recommendation, request, entreaty, wish, or expectation, employed in wills, as distinguished from express directions; -- in some cases creating a trust. Jarman.

ry, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the weak need protection. To your protection I commend me, gods. Shak.

One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.

The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.

loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience. A greater power Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned. Milton.…

Indeed; forsooth. To affront the blessed hillside drabs and thieves With mended morals, quotha, -- fine new lives ! Mrs. Browning.

The state or quality of being rare. And let the rareness the small gift commend. Dryden.

More properly; more correctly speaking. This is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. Shak.

To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for. Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under. Shak.