amend

verb

1. (transitive)To make better; improve.

   “Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee; Mar not the thing that cannot be amended.”

   “We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.”

   “I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.”

2. (intransitive)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.”

3. (obsolete, transitive)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.”

   “he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended.”

4. (intransitive, obsolete)To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).

   “Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great assay of art; but at his touch— Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand— They presently amend.”

5. (transitive)To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.

   “The following motions cannot be amended:”

   “1990, Doug Hoyle, Hansard, Trade Union Act, 1984, Amendment no. 2, 4 July, 1990, It is necessary to amend the Act to preserve the spirit in which it was first passed into law […]”

noun

1. (plural-normally)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.”

   “It was her offer of surrender as an amend that, persuading him of her shining honesty, had aroused in him something akin to worship and had made an end of that cynical spirit in which for worldly ends he had aimed at marrying her.”

   “Did I owe him an amend? Probably not, but I did owe myself an amend. I did this by ceasing to resent.”

   “The point was, I wasn't really willing to make the amend, to make it right. But the point of an amend, as I understand it now, is to make it right for the person who was wringed, to the best of our ability, and in so doing, making it right for ourselves.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, plural-normally)Clipping of amendment (“alteration or change for the better”).

   “I've sent over a new version of the doc with some amends.”

name

1. A surname.