amender (amender)

One who amends. We find this digester of codes, amender of laws,... permitting. one of the most atrocious acts of oppresBrougham. amendfult (a-mend'ful), a. [ sion. 2. To make a change or changes in the form of, as a bill or motion, or a constitution; properly, to improve in expre ion or detail, but by usage to alter either in construction, purport, or principle.-3. To repair; mend. [Now rare.]-4t. To heal or recover (the sick); cure (a disease). = Syn. Amend, Improve, Better, Emend, Mend, Correct, Rectify, Reform, Ameliorate. Amend is generally to bring into a more perfect state by the removal of defects: as, to amend a record or one's manner of life. Improve and better are the only words in the list that do not nece arily imply something previously wrong; they may mean the heightening of excel amendment (a-mend'ment), n. [ used in the endured rectify are, by derivation, to make right; they are the most absolute, as denoting the bringing of a thing from an imper fect state into conformity with some standard or rule: as, to correct proof; to rectify an error in accounts. To mend is to repair or restore that which has become impaired: as, to mend a shoe, a bridge, etc. Applied to things other than physical, it may be equivalent to amend: as, to mend one's manners. Emend has especially the limited meaning of or to restore Your most amendful and unmatched fortunes. Fletcher (and others ), Bloody Brother, iii. 1. ment, Her works are so perfect that there is no place for amendments. Ray, Creation. 2. The act of becoming better, or the state of text of boong Restoring tempting for the bet having become better; specifically, recovery ter, either by returning the thing to its previous state or by bringing it up to a new one; or it may be to remove by reform: as, to reform the laws; to reform abuses. Ameliorate is not commonly applied to persons and things, but to condition and kindred abstractions; it expre es painstaking effort followed by some measure of succe : as, to ameliorate the condition of the pooг. of health. Your honour's players, hearing your amendment , Are come to play a pleasant comedy. Shak., T. of the S., Ind. 2. 3. In deliberative a emblies, an alteration proposed to be made in the draft of a bill, or in the ament terms of a motion under discu ion. Any such alteration is termed an amendment, even when its effect is entirely to reverse the sense of the original bill or motion. 4. An alteration of a legislative or deliberative act or in a constitution; a change made in a law, either by way of correction or addition. Amendments to the Constitution of the United States may be proposed by a majority of two thirds of both houses of Congre , or by a convention summoned by Congre on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the States, and enacted by their ratification by the legislatures of three fourths of the States, or by conventions in three fourths of them, as Congre may determine. 5. In law, the correction of an error in a writ, record, or other judicial document.-6. Compensation; reparation. Chaucer, Reeve's Tale. =Syn. 1. Emendation, betterment.-2. Reform, etc. See reformation.