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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7 words match “AMICABLE”

AMICABLE a.
ceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. That which was most remarkable in this contest was . . . the amicable manner in which it was managed. Prideoux. Amicable action (Law.), an action commenced and prosecuted by amicable consent o…
AMICABLENESS n.
The quality of being amicable; amicability.
AMICABILITY n.
The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness. Ash.
AMICABLY adv.
In an amicable manner.
BREACH n.
A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. There's fallen between him and my lord An unkind breach. Shak.
FRIENDLY a.
Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay.
IMPARLANCE n.
k or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit. The actual object, however, has long been merely to obtain further time to plead, answer to the allegations of the opposite party.