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; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration. His words impression left Of much amazement. Milton.

Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.

at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily. It is used as a noun, to demote: (a) concurrence in belief, or in a statement; assent; (b) the final word or act; (c) Christ as being one who i…

A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation. Amende honorable(#). (Old French Law) 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 denot…

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation. [Now const. with sing. verb.] "An honorable amends." Addison. Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. Shak.

continued multiplication, in transitory structures, and in those in early stages of degeneration.

The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.

A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

Sexual generation; amphigony.

alike that they appear to have a head at each, and ability to move either way. See Illustration in Appendix.

nd giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

A postponement of the decision of a cause, for further consideration or re-argument.

fuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies.

To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden.

The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body.

The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration.

Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike. Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.