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t. [ E. mate, enfeeble: see mate2.] To terrify; perplex; daunt; subdue. Upon the wall the Pagans old and young Stood hush'd and still, amated and amaz'd. (am'a-turor am-a-ter's hip), n. [ amateur + -ship . The character or position of an amateur. Wearied with the frigid pleasures (so he called them) of mere amateurship . De Quincey , Murder as a Fine Art. am at i to (am-a-tē tō), n . [Prop. * am at it a , am at it a , lead or chalk for pencils, prop. hematite, hæmatites , hematite: see hematite .] A pigment of a deep-red color prepared from hematite, and formerly much used in fresco painting. Audsley . amative (am'a-tiv), a. [= It. amativo , mativus , amare , pp. amatus , love: see am or.] Full of love; amorous; amatory; disposed d or or disposing to love. amativene (am'a-tiv-nes), n. sity to love, or to the gratification of the sexual pa ions. The term is used by phrenologists to designate the supposed localization of this propensity in the hind part of the brain. See cut under phrenology . amatorial (am-a-tō'ri-al), a. [L. am at or i us (see amatory ) + -al .] Of or pertaining to love or lovers; amatory: as, amatorial verses. The propen Tales of love and chivalry, amatorial sonnets. T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry. A small quantity of pa ion, dexterously meted out, may be ample to inspire an amatorial poet. 1. D'Israeli , Amen. of Lit., I. 356. Amatorial muscles, the oblique muscles of the eye: so called from their fancied importance in ogling. amatorially (am-a-tō'ri-al-i), adv . In an am a am at or torial manner; by way of love. amatorian (am-a-to'ri-an), a. Pertaining to love; amatorial. [Rare.] Horace's lusory or amatorian odes. Johnson, Lives of Poets (Edmund Smith). am a to rio (ä-mä-tō'ri-ō), n.; pl. am at or i i (-ē). [It., am at or i us : see amatory .] ratory .] A decorated vase, dish, bowl, or plate, intended or suitable for a a love-gift; specifically, a piece of majolica painted with the portrait of a lady and bearing a complimentary inscription. am at or i oust (am-a-to'ri-us), a. [L. L. amato ust (am-a-tori-us), a rius:: see amatory .] Pertaining to love. The vain, amatorious poem of Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia." Milton , Eikon ok las tes. [L. am at or i us , per amator , a lover: see Pertaining to, pro Fairfax, tr. of Ta o, xi. 12. amatory (am'a-to-ri), a. My lord, hath love amated him whose thoughts Have ever been heroical and brave? Greene, Orlando Furioso. a materialistic (a-ma-tē"ri-a-lis'tik), a . [ materialistic .] Opposed to materialism, or to materialistic philosophy. It is intensely a materialistic for us to speak of the table (that is, of any table) as if it had some objective existence, independent of a cognizing mind. J. Fiske , in N. A. Rev., CXXVI. 33. amateur (am'a-tur or am-a-tür', often as F., the word being of recent introduction-about 1784-am-a-ter'), n. and a. [F., = Pr. am at our = Sp. Pg. amador = It. amatore, a lover, an taining to love or al a lover, amateur. Cf. amorous.] ducing, or supposed to produce love; expres- sive of love; amatorial: as, amatory poems. She could repay each amatory look you lent With interest. Byron , Don Juan, ix. 62. = Syn. See amorous , amaurosis (am-a-rō'sis), n. [NL., ρωσις , ἀμαυρός , dim, dark, a -intensive + μαυρός , dark.] A parti partial or total lo of sight independent of any discoverable lesion in the eye itself: for formerly and still sometimes called gut ta serena; by Milton "a drop serene," P. L., iii. 25. amateur, L. amatorem, ace. of amator, lover, amaurotic (am-a-rot'ik), a. Pertaining to or pp. 1. One who admires; an admirer; a lover. She remained an impa ioned amateur of musical genius in others. Howells , A Modern Instance. 2. One who has an especial love for any art, study, or pursuit, but does not practise it.-3. Most commonly, one who cultivates any study or art from taste or attachment, without pursuing it profe ionally or with a view to gain: often used of one who pursues a study or an art in a desultory, unskilful, or non-profe ional way.-4. Specifically, in sporting and athletics, an athlete who has never competed in a match open to all comers, or for a stake, or for public money, or for gate-money, or under a false name, or with a profe ional for a prize, and has never taught or pursued athletic exercises as a means of support. II. a. Pertaining to or having the character of an amateur: as, amateur work; an amateur pianist. amateurish (am-a-tūr'ish or am-a-ter'ish), a. [ A condescending, amateurish way. Dickens , Our Mutual Friend affected with amaurosis. IMG:content-0586.png:[blocks in formation] Amaze not, man of God, if in the spirit Thou'rt brought from Jewry unto Nineveh. Greene and Lodge , Look. Gla for L. and E., p. 119.