LekhoriLekhoriTo make better; improve.
Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee; Mar not the thing that cannot be amended.
To become better.
The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend.
To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend.
An act of righting a wrong; compensation.
Thus by the code of the Visigoths, it was forbidden to all strangers to take their subjects under a penalty of one hundred lashes and an amend in gold.
Clipping of amendment (“alteration or change for the better”).
I've sent over a new version of the doc with some amends.
A surname.
From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend.
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