amanse

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See also: amansé

English

Etymology

From Middle English amansen, amansien, from Old English āmānsumian (“to excommunicate, anathematize, curse, proscribe, outlaw”, literally “to disjoin”), from a- (“out, without”) + ġemāna (“community, company, common property, communion, companionship, intercourse, cohabitation”) + -sumian, equivalent to a- +‎ mone (“companion, companionship”) + -some. Cognate with Old High German armeinsamōn (“to excommunicate”).

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Verb

amanse (third-person singular simple present amanses, present participle amansing, simple past and past participle amansed)

  1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To excommunicate; interdict.
    • 1781, Jacob Bryant, Thomas Chatterton, Observations upon the poems of Thomas Rowley:
      From hence it is plain, that the amanased, or amansed nations were the infidel Saracens.
  2. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To ban; curse; accurse.

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Portuguese

Verb

amanse

  1. inflection of amansar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

amanse

  1. inflection of amansar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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