amass 
amass (a-mas'), i'. *. [< F. amasser, < ML. 
(tmassare, < L. ad, to, + massa, mass, heap, > F. 
masse, > E. mass 2 , q. v.] To collect into a mass 
or heap ; bring together a great amount, quan- 
tity, or number of: as, to amass a fortune. 
In his youth Conite was an insatiable reader, and be- 
fore he began the work of constructing the Positive Phi- 
losophy he had amasxed vast stores of learning in almost 
every department of knowledge. 
J. Fiske, Cos. Phil., I. 136. 
amasst (a-mas'), n. [< OF. amasse, F. amas; 
from the verb.] An assemblage, a heap, or 
an accumulation. 
This pillar is nothing in effect hut amedley or an amasse 
of all the precedent ornaments. Wottan, Reliquiae, p. 25. 
amassable (a-mas'a-bl), a. [< amass + -able.] 
Capable of being amassed. 
amasser (a-mas'er), n. One who amasses or 
accumulates. 
amassette (am-a-sef), n. [F. (dim. form), < 
amasser, amass, collect: see amass, v.] An in- 
strument, usually of horn, like a palette-knife 
or spatula, with wMch in the preparation of 
pigments the colors used in painting are col- 
lected and scraped together on the stone during 
the process of grinding them with the muller. 
Also written amazette. 
amassment (a-mas'ment), n. The act of amass- 
ing ; a heap collected ; a great quantity or num- 
ber brought together ; an accumulation. 
An antassment of imaginary conceptions. 
Olaneille, Seep. Sci., xiii. 
Amasta (a-mas'ta), n. pi. [NL., neut. pi. of 
amastus, < Gr. tfimrrof. without breasts, < o- 
priv. + fiaar6f, breast.] Nippleless mammals: 
a term applied to the monotremes or cloacal 
oviparous mammals, which, though provided 
with mammary glands, have no nipples, 
amasthenic (am-as-then'ik), a. [Prop. *hama- 
sthenic, < Gr. apa,' together, + affl-vof, strength.] 
Uniting the chemical rays of light in a focus : 
said of a lens. Also amacratie. 
amate't (a-maf), v. t. [< a- (expletive) + 
matel, v.] To accompany; entertain as a com- 
panion ; be a fellow or mate to. 
A lovely bevy of faire Ladies sate, 
Courted of many a jolly 1'aramoure, 
The which them did in modest wise amate. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. ix. 34. 
amate'-'t (a-maf), v. t. [< ME. amaten, < OF. 
amatir, daunt, subdue, enfeeble, etc. (= It. am- 
mattire), < a- (L. ad, to) + matir, mater (in same 
senses as amatir), > E. mate, enfeeble: see 
mate 2 ."] To terrify; perplex; daunt; subdue. 
Upon the wall the Pagans old and young 
Stood hush'd and still, amated and amaz'd. 
Fairfax, tr. of Tasso, xi. 12. 
My lord, hath love amated him whose thoughts 
Have ever been heroical and brave? 
Greene, Orlando Furioso. 
amaterialistic (a-ma-te' / ri-a-lis'tik), a. [< Gr. 
a- priv. (a-18) + materialistic.] Opposed to 
materialism, or to materialistic philosophy. 
It is intensely amaterialMic for us to speak of the ta- 
ble (that is, of any table) as if it had some objective exist- 
ence, independent of a cognizing mind. 
J. Fiske, in N. A. Rev., CXXVI. 33. 
amateur (am'a-tur or am-a-tur', often as F., 
the word being of recent introduction about 
1781 am-a-ter' ), . and a. [F., = Pr. amatour 
= Sp. Pg. amador = It. amatore, a lover, an 
amateur, < L. amatorem, ace. of amator, lover, 
< amare, pp. amatus, love : see amor.'] I. n. 
1. One who admires; an admirer; a lover. 
She remained an impassioned amateur of musical ge- 
nius 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 pur- 
suing it professionally or with a view to gain : 
often used of one who pursues a study or an art 
in a desultory, unskilful, or non-professional 
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 professional 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-tur'ish or am-a-ter'ish), a. 
[< amateur + -ish^.] Pertaining to or charac- 
teristic of an amateur; having the faults or 
deficiencies of an amateur or a non-profes- 
sional. 
A condescending, amateurish way. 
Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. 
106 
They said it [a book] was amateurish, that it was in a 
falsetto key. The Century, XXVI. 28fi. 
amateurishness (am-a-tur'- or am-a-ter'ish- 
nes), n. The quality of being amateurish. 
amateurism (am'a-tur-izm or am-a-ter'izm), 
n. [< amateur + -ism."] The practice of any 
art, occupation, game, etc., as a pastime or an 
accomplishment, and not as a profession ; the 
quality of being an amateur. 
amateurship (am'a-tur- or am-a-ter'ship), n. 
[< amateur + -ship.] The character or position 
of an amateur. 
Wearied with the frigid pleasures (so he called them) of 
mere amateurship. De (juincey, Murder as a Fine Art. 
amatito (am-a-te'to), . [Prop, "amatita, < It. 
amatita, lead or chalk for pencils, prop, hema- 
tite, < L. haematites, 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, < L. as 
if *amativus, 'I amare, pp. amatus, love : see 
amor."] Full of love; amorous; amatory; dis- 
posed or disposing to love. 
amativeness (am'a-tiv-nes), n. The propen- 
sity to love, or to the gratification of the sex- 
ual passions. 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-to'ri-al), a. [< L. amatorius 
(see amatory) -T- -al.] Of or pertaining to love 
or lovers; amatory: as, amatorial verses. 
Tales of love and chivalry, amatorial sonnets. 
T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry. 
A small quantity of passion, dexterously meted out, 
may be ample to inspire an amatirrial 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-to'ri-al-i), adv. In an ama- 
torial manner ; by way of love. 
amatorian (am-a-to'n-an), a. Pertaining to 
love; amatorial. [Rare.] 
Horace's lusory or amatorian odes. 
Johnson, Lives of Poets (Edmund Smith). 
amatorio (a-ma-to'ri-o), n. ; pi. amatorii (-). 
[It., < L. amatorius: see amatory.'] A deco- 
rated vase, dish, bowl, or plate, intended or 
suitable for a love-gift ; specifically, a piece of 
majolica painted with the portrait of a lady 
and bearing a complimentary inscription. 
amatorioust (am-a-to'ri-us), a. [< L. amato- 
rius : see amatory.] Pertaining to love. 
The vain, anwtorious poem of Sir Philip Sidney's " Ar- 
cadia." Milton, Eikonoklastes. 
amatory (am'a-to-ri), a. [< L. amatorius, per- 
taining to love or a lover, < amator, a lover: see 
amateur. Cf. amorous.] Pertaining to, pro- 
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-ro'sis), n. [NL., < Gr. a/iaii- 
puaif, < d/iatipof , dim, dark, < a- intensive + /tavp6f, 
dark.] A partial or total loss of sight inde- 
pendent of any discoverable lesion in the eye 
itself : formerly and still sometimes called gut- 
ta serena; by Milton "a drop serene," P. L., 
iii. 25. 
amaurotic (am-a-rot'ik), a. Pertaining to or 
affected with amaurosis. 
amausite (a-ma'sit), n. Same as petrosilex. 
amayt (a-ma'), v. t. and i. [< ME. amayen, < 
OF. amaier, amaer, forms parallel to the usual 
OF. esmaier, esmoxr = fr. esmaiar=K. smagare, 
< L. ex, out (here privative), + ML. "magare, < 
OHG. magan, have power, = E. may, v. Cf. 
dismay.] To dismay; confound; be dismayed. 
Whereof he dradde and was amayed. 
Oower, Conf. Amant. 
Counsayllen the of that thou art amayed. 
Chaucer, Troilus, i. 648. 
amaze (a-maz'), v. ; pret. and pp. amazed, ppr. 
amazing. [< ME. amasen, found only in pp. 
amused; also bimased, in same sense; < a-, E. 
a-l (or bi-, E. fee- 1 ), + masen, confuse, perplex, 
>E. maze, q. v.] I. trans. 1. To confound with 
fear, sudden surprise, or wonder ; confuse ; 
perplex. 
They shall be afraid ; . . . they shall be amazed one at 
another. Isa. xiii. 8. 
Let thy blows, doubly redoubled, 
Fall like amazing thunder on the casque 
Of thy adverse pernicious enemy. 
Shak., Rich. II., i. 3. 
Till the great plover's human whistle amazed 
Her heart, and glancing round the waste she fear'd 
In every wavering brake an ambuscade. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
Amazon 
2. To strike with astonishment, surprise, or 
wonder ; astonish ; surprise : as, you amaze me ; 
I was amazed to find him there. 
The beauty and magnificence of the buildings erected 
by the sovereigns of Hindostan amazed even travellers 
who had seen St. Peter's. Macattlay, Lord Clive. 
Then down into the vale he gazed, 
And held his breath, as if amazed 
By all its wondrous loveliness. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 104. 
= Syn. Surprise, Astonish, etc. (see surprise) ; to confound, 
stagger, stupefy, dumfound. 
Il.t intrans. To wonder; be amazed. 
Madam, amaze not ; see his majesty 
Return'd with glory from the Holy Land. 
Peele, Edward I., i. 1. 
Amaze not, man of God, if in the spirit 
Thou'rt brought from Jewry unto Nineveh. 
Greene and Lodge, Look. Glass for L. and E., p. 119. 
amaze (a-maz'), n. [(amaze, v.] Astonish- 
ment ; confusion ; perplexity arising from fear, 
surprise, or wonder ; amazement : used chiefly 
in poetry. 
Now of my own accord such other trial 
I mean to show you of my strength, yet greater, 
As with amaze shall strike all who behold. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 1645. 
It fills me with amaze 
To see thee, Porphyro ! Keats, Eve of St. Agnes. 
amazedly (a-ma'zed-li), adv. With amaze- 
ment ; in a manner that indicates astonishment 
or bewilderment. 
I speak amazedly ; and it becomes 
My marvel, and my message. Shak., W. T., v. 1. 
amazedness (a-ma'zed-nes), . The state of 
being amazed or confounded with fear, sur- 
prise, or wonder ; astonishment ; great won- 
der. 
After a little awazedness, we were all commanded out 
of the chamber. Shak., W. T., v. 2. 
amazefult (a-maz'ful), a. Full of amazement ; 
calculated to produce amazement. 
Thy just armes 
Shine with amazefull terror. 
Marston, Sophonisba, i. 1. 
amazement (a-maz'ment), n. 1. The state of 
being amazed'; astonishment; confusion or per- 
plexity from a sudden impression of surprise, 
or surprise mingled with alarm. 
They were filled with wonder and amazement at that 
which had happened unto him. Acts iii. 10. 
His words impression left 
Of much amazement to the infernal crew. 
Milton, P. R., i. 107. 
2f. Infatuation; madness. Webster. 
amazette (am-a-zef), n. Same as amassette. 
Amazilia (am-a-zil'i-a), n. [NL., < amazili, 
applied by the Frencn ornithologist Lesson in 
1826 to a species of humming-bird, and in 1832, 
in pi., to a group of humming-birds. Other 
NL. forms are amazilius, amazilieus, amazillis, 
amazillia, amizilis (a mere misprint), dim. ama- 
zieula, amaziliculus: all being names of hum- 
ming-birds. The name amazili is prob. of S. 
Amer. origin, perhaps connected with the name 
of the Amazon river; cf. amazoril, 2.] A genus 
of humming-birds, of the family Trochilida;, em- 
bracing about 24 species, of large size, found 
from the Mexican border of the United States 
to Peru, and mostly of green and chestnut 
coloration. The bill is about 
as long as the head, nearly 
straight, and broad, with lancet- 
shaped tip ; the nostrils are ex- 
posed and scaled; the wings 
are long and pointed ; the tail is 
even or slightly forked ; and the 
tarsi are feathered. The two 
species found in the United 
States are A. fuscocaudata and 
A . cerviniventris. See cut under 
humming-bird. 
amazingly (a-ma'zing-li), 
adv. In an amazing man- 
ner or degree; in a man- 
ner to excite astonish- 
ment, or to perplex, con- 
found, or terrify ; wonder- 
fully; exceedingly. 
If we arise to the world of 
spirits, our knowledge of them 
must be amazingly imperfect. 
Watts, Logic. 
Amazon 1 (am'a-zon), n. 
[ME. Amazones, Amyso- 
nes, pi.; < L. Amazon, < 
Gr. 'A/iafuv, a foreign name 
of unknown meaning ; ac- j,^ 
cording to Greek writers, 
< a- priv., without, + ua^6^, a breast; a popu- 
lar etymology, accompanied by, and doubtless 
Amazon. 
Statue in the Vatican, per- 
haps a copy of the type of 
