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may have plenty of air in mild weather, otherwifc they 
will draw up weak and have little beauty. The lecond 
may be propagated by feeds, which thould be fown on a 
hot-bed in the fpring ; v hen the plants are fit to remove, 
two or three of them ftiould be planted in pots, then 
plunged into a hot-bed of tan, to bring them forward to 
get ripe feeds in the autumn, otherwife the plants will 
require a ftove in winter. 
Amellus, f . in botany. See Cai.ea and Erigeron. 
Amellus Virgilii, f. in botany. See Aster. 
AMELOT' de la Houssaie (Nicholas), born at Or¬ 
leans in 1634, was much efteemed at the court of France, 
and appointed fecretary of an embafly which that court 
fent to the commonwealth of Venice, as appears by the 
title of his Tranllation of Father Paul’s Hiftory of the 
Council of Trent; but lie afterwards publifhed writings 
which gave fuch offence, that he was imprifoned in the 
Baftile. The find works he printed were the Hiftory of 
the Government of Venice, and that of the Ufcocks, a 
people of Croatia. In 1683 he publifhed his tranflations 
into French of Machiavel’s Prince, and Father Paul’s 
Hiftory of the Council of Trent, and Political Difcourfes 
of his own upon Tacitus. Thefe performances were 
well received by the public. His tranflation of Father 
Paul was attacked by the partifansof the pope’s unbounded 
power and authority. In France, however, it met with 
great fuccefs; all the advocates for the liberty of the 
Gallican church promoting it to utmoft of their power, 
though at the fame time there were three memorials 
prefented to have it fuppreffed. In 1684, he printed, at 
Paris, a French tranflation of Baltafar Gracian’s Oraculo 
Manual, with the title of l'Homme de Cour. In 1686, he 
printed I.a Morale de Tacite de La Flaterie ; in which work 
he collected feveral particular fails and maxims, which 
reprefent in a ftrong light the artifices of court-flatterers, 
and the mifchievous effeft of their poifonous difcourfes. 
He wrote feveral other works ; and died at Paris in 1706, 
being then almoft fteventy-three years of age. 
Amelot (Denis), a celebrated French writer, was 
born at Saintonge in 1606. He maintained a clofe cor- 
refponden.ee with the fathers of the Oratory, a congrega¬ 
tion of priells founded by Philip of Neri. He wrote the 
life of Charles de Gondren, fecohd fuperior of this con¬ 
gregation, and publiilied it at Paris in 1643. Amelot’s 
tranflation of the New Teftament, in 4 vols odlavo, was 
printed in the years 1666, 1667, and 166S. Amelot wrote 
alfo an Abridgement of Divinity, a Catechifm for the 
Jubilee, and a kind of Chriftian Manual for every day. 
Towards the end of his life, he entered into the congrega¬ 
tion of the Oratory in 1650 ; and continued amongft them 
till his death ; which happened in 1678. 
A'MEN, adv. [a word of which the original has given 
rife to many conjeihires. Scaliger w rites, that it is Ara¬ 
bic ; and the rabbies make it the compound of the initials 
of three words, fignifyin ^ the Lord is a faithful king \ but 
the word feems merely Hebrew, *ctt, which, with a long 
train of derivatives, fignifies, firmnefs, certainty, fidelity.] 
A term conftantly ufed in devotions, by which, at the end 
of a prayer, we mean, Jo be it ; at the end of a creed Jo it 
is. It was a fort of affirmation ufed often by our Saviour : 
Aurv, ciur.’j, \iyu vp.iv, Verily, verily, Lfay unto you. Laftly, 
it is underftood as exprelfing a wifh ; as, Amen, Jo be it, 
Numb. v. 22. or an affirmation, Amen,yes, l believe it, 1 
Cor. xiv. 16. The Hebrews, and the five books of Pfalms, 
according to their way of diftributing them, with the 
words Amen, amen ; which the Septuagint have tranflated, 
rwoiro, •ywoi-ro ; and the Latins, Fiat , fiat. The Greek 
and Latin churches have preferved this word in their 
prayers, as well as alleluiah and hofannah ; becaufe they 
obferved more energy in them than in any terms which 
they could ufe in their own languages. At the conclu- 
flon of the public prayers, the people anfwered with a 
loud voice, Amen; and St. Jerome fays, that at Rome, 
when the people anfwered Amen, the found of their voices 
was like a clap of thunder : In fimilitudincm coelefiis tonitrui 
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Am Hi reboat. The Jews aflert, that the gates of heaven are 
opened to him whoanfwers AmenWw\\ ail his might. 
AMF'NABFE, adj. [ amefinable, Fr. amener quelqu'un, 
in the French courts, fignifies, to oblige one to appear to 
anfwer a charge exhibited againft him.] Refponfible ; 
fubjeft lo as to be liable to enquiries or accounts.—Again, 
becaufe the inferior fort were loofe and poor, and not 
amenable to the law, he provided, by another adi, that five 
of the beft and eldeft perfonsof every fept fliould bring in 
all the idle perfons of their furname to be juftified by the 
law. Sir John Davies. 
Amenable, [from the French main, a hand.] In lav/, 
fignifies traTable, ad manum, that may be led or governed. 
In the modern fenfe, it fignifies to be refponfible, orfub- 
jeeft to anfwer in a court of juftice. 
AM'ENAGE, or Amenance,/ [They feem to come 
from amener , Fr.] Conduit; behaviour; mien: words 
difufed. 
To AMEJM'D, v. a. [ ameiuler, Fr. emenddr, Sp. emendo , 
It. and Lat.] To correit ; to change any thing that is 
wrong to fomething better. To reform the life, or leave 
wickednefs. In thefe two cafes we ufually write mend. — 
Amend your ways and your doings, and 1 will caufe you to 
dwell in this place. Jerem. vii. 3.-—To reftore palfages in 
writers, which the copiers are fuppofed to have depraved j 
to recover the true reading. 
“Little faid, foon amended,” or “ filence feldom does 
harm.” Lat. Nulli tacuiffe nocet effe locutum. H. Ger. Reden 
that me/irJchaden aesJHUJckweigai. Loquacity is more hurt¬ 
ful than filence. And indeed, if we conlider the fatal 
confequences which in all ages have attended thofe who 
have given too great a loofe to their tongue, and the fe- 
rioits misfortunes this little member has brought upon 
mankind in general, every wife man would be very cau¬ 
tious how he placed his words. How often does the talk¬ 
ative man expofc himfelf to derifion, and what pains does 
he not take to appear a greater fool than perhaps he in 
reality is ; whereas the man who fpeaks little, and with 
caution, has often a greater (hare of wifdom aferibed to 
him than he deferves. 
To Amend, v. n. To grow better. To amend differs 
from to improve ; to improve fuppofes or not denies that the 
thing is well already, but to amend implies fomethingw'rong. 
AMEN'DE, J. [French] This word, in French, fig¬ 
nifies a fine, by which recompence is fuppofed to be made 
for the fault committed. We ufe, in a cognate fignificationj, 
the word amends. 
AMEN'DER, A- [from amind.~\ The perfon that a— 
mends any thing. 
AMEND'MENT,yi [ amendement , Fr.] A change from 
bad for the better.—Man is always mending and altering 
his works; but nature obferves the fame tenor, becaufe 
her w’orks are fo perfect, that there is no place for amend¬ 
ments ; nothing can be reprehended. Ray .—Reformation 
of life.—Behold ! famine and plague, tribulation and an- 
guilh, are fent as lcourges for amendment. 2 Efidras, xvi. 19;. 
—Recovery of health: 
Your honour’s players, hearing your amendment,. 
Are come to play a pleafant comedy. Skahefpeare. 
Amendment, [ amendatio. ] in law, is the correction of 
an error committed in any procefs which may b l e amended 
after judgment ; but, if there be any error in giving the 
judgment, the party is driven to his writ of error : though, 
where the'fault appears to be in the clerk who wrote the 
record, it may be amended. Terms of the Law. Formerly 
fuitors were much perplexed by writs of error brought 
upon very flight and trival grounds, as mif-fpellings and 
other miftakes of the clerks, all which might be amended 
at the common law, while all the proceedings were in 
paper, for they were then confldered only in fieri, and 
therefore fubjeift to the controul of the courts. But, when 
once the record was made up, it was formerly held, that 
by the common law, no amendment could be permitted, 
unlefs within the very term in which the judicial aft fo. 
recorded! 
