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amanse

/əˈmænz/

amanse verb: to excommunicate; interdict.

Verb

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

  1. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To 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
  2. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To ban; curse; accurse.

Forms of amanse

third-person singular presentamanses
present participleamansing
past participleamansed
pastamansed

Origin of amanse

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”).

Words formed from amanse

  • amansed
  • amansing

Questions about amanse

What does amanse mean?
Amanse means to excommunicate; interdict.
What part of speech is amanse?
Amanse is a verb.
How do you pronounce amanse?
Amanse is pronounced /əˈmænz/.
What is the past tense of amanse?
The past tense of amanse is amansed.

Words near amanse in the dictionary

  1. Amano
  2. amanori
  3. Amanos
  4. amanous
  5. amanozine
  6. amanse
  7. amant
  8. Amantacop
  9. amantadine
  10. amantadines
  11. Amante

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