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mendment|ˈmɛndmənt|
[Aphetic f. amendment. Cf. OF. mendement (once in Godef., written mandement).]
1. = amendment; improvement, reparation, correction, reformation.
a1300Cursor M. 23744 Þis lijf he [crist] has vs lent.. To hald ai wel his comament, If we do mis, do mendement. a1400Morte Arth. 989, I am comyne fra the conquerour..for mendemente of the pople. 1559Mirr. Mag., Edw. Dk. Somerset xxv. (1563) 167 He..would have all thing mended, But by that mendment nothyng els he ment, But to be kyng. 1612Dekker If it be not good Wks. 1873 III. 298 Bar. Well, well, the world will mend. Bra. The pox of mendment I see.
2. Improvement of the soil; concr. manure; = amendment 6. Now dial.
1644G. Plattes in Hartlib's Legacy (1655) 289 If the mendment of their own lands were the cheapest purchase to the owner [etc.]. 1798J. Middleton View Agric. Mdlsx. 305 Manure is undoubtedly the great cause of fertility. (The Middlesex farmer says ‘there is nothing to be done without ‘mendment’’.) 1842E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 13 Potash and saltpetre would invigorate corn crops more than any other artificial mendment. 1883Hampshire Gloss. |