Meanings
present singular third person amanses · participle present amansing · participle past amansed · past amansed
- dialectalobsoletetransitiveTo excommunicate; interdict.
From hence it is plain, that the amanased, or amansed nations were the infidel Saracens.
1781, Jacob Bryant, Thomas Chatterton, Observations upon the poems of Thomas Rowley
Origin
- Old Englishāmǣnsumian“to excommunicate, anathematize, curse, proscribe, outlaw”
- Middle Englishamansen
- Englishamanse
From Middle English amansen, amansien, from Old English āmǣnsumian (“to excommunicate, anathematize, curse, proscribe, outlaw”, literally “to disjoin”), from a- (“out, without”) + ġemāna (“community, company, common property, communion, companionship, intercourse, cohabitation”) + *sumian. Cognate with Old High German armeinsamōn (“to excommunicate”).
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