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The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.

Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor.

The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.

In an amenable manner.

To manage. [Obs.] Spenser.

Behavior; bearing. [Obs.] Spenser.

thing else in the place of what is removed; to rectify. Mar not the thing that can not be amended. Shak. An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott. To amend a bill, to…

Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error. -- A*mend"a*ble*ness, n.

Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory. Bancroft.

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…

One who amends.

Much improving. [Obs.]

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

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

te, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness. A sweetness and amenity of temper. Buckle. This climate has not seduced by its amenities. W. Howitt.

Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.

Pertaining to amenorrhoea.

A species of inflorescence; a catkin. The globular ament of a buttonwood. Coues.

Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.

Imbecility; total want of understanding.