Amende

An given apology for offense some injury done against to another, Honorable. or satisfaction for an committed the rules of honor or military etiquette; also an. infamous kind of punishment inflicted upon traitors, parricides, or sacrilegious persons. [French] Amentum, — A leather strap or thong used by the Romans, Greeks, and Galicians to throw javelins. It was fastened around the second and third … fingers, and a knot was tied on it, which at the throwing of the lance loosened itself.