amendful
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[edit]amendful (comparative more amendful, superlative most amendful)
- (obsolete) Much improving.
- c. 1612–1630, John Fletcher, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, “The Bloody Brother; or, Rollo. A Tragedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Farre fly such rigour your amendfull hand.
- 1875, “Eugenia (1614)”, in The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations, page 325:
- wherein whatsoever is presently defective, the anniversaries that, for as many years as God shall please to give me life and faculty, I constantly resolve to perform to his noblest name and virtues, shall, I hope, be furnished with supplies amendful and acceptable .
- 1843, The Iliads of Homer:
- He said, and his amendful words did Hector highly please, Who rush'd betwixt the fighting hosts , and made the Trojans cease, By holding up in midst his lance:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “amendful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)