amity, amitie, amyte

[Fr. amitié; Norm. amistie; Sp. amistad; Port. amizade; Ital. amista, amistade, am i state. From Lat. amicitia = friendship; amo = to love.] 1. Ord. Lang.: Friendship, harmony, mutual good feeling. It may be used (a) Of nations, and is then opposed to war . "The monarchy of Great Britain was in league and amity with all the world."-Sir J. Davies on Ireland. (b) Of political parties, or generally of the people of a single country among themselves; in which case it is opposed to discord . "The amity of the Whigs and Tories had not survived the peril which had produced it."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. x. (c) Of private persons; when it is opposed to quarrelling . "The pleasures of amity , or self-recommendation, are the pleasures that may accompany the persuasion of a man's being in the acquisition or the po e ion of the goodwill of such or such a ignable person person or persons in particular or, as the phrase is, of being upon good terms with him or them and as a fruit of it, of his being in a way to have the benefit of their spontaneous and gratuitous services, "-Bowring: Bentham's Princ. of Morals & Legislation, ch . v. § VL, 4. (d) Of impersonal existences. "To live on terms of amity with vice." Cowper: The Task, bk. v. 2. Astrol.: A most favourable omen. whereas in in all other planets conjunction is the fectest amity ; the sun contrariwise is good by aspect, but evil by conjunction."-Lord Bacon's Works (ed. 1765), vol. 1: Colours of Good and Evil , ch. vii., p. 441. and therfore the astronomers say, that the per ămm, in composition. Chem. A contraction for Ammonia; as ammiridammonium.