Amende, å-mängd', s

a fine by way of compensation; reparation. The amende honorable, a public apology for an insult offered or an injury done; originally mode of punishment in France which required the offender, stripped to his shirt, and led into court with a rope round his neck, held by the public executioner, to beg pardon on his knees, of his God, his king, and his country (Fr.)