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单词 amiable
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amiableadj.n.

Brit. /ˈeɪmɪəbl/, U.S. /ˈeɪmiəb(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English ameabill, Middle English amiabul, Middle English amyabil, Middle English amyabill, Middle English–1500s amyable, Middle English– amiable, 1500s aimeable, 1600s– aimiable (now nonstandard); Scottish pre-1700 amiabil, pre-1700 amiabill, pre-1700 amiabyll, pre-1700 amyabil, pre-1700 amyabill, pre-1700 amyable, pre-1700 1700s– amiable; N.E.D. (1884) also records a form Middle English aimiable.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman ameable, Anglo-Norman and Middle French amiable (French amiable ) worthy of being loved, lovable, lovely, loved, liked, friendly, kind (11th cent. in Old French) < classical Latin amīcābilis amicable adj.; the semantic development of the French word was probably influenced by association with Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French amable amable adj.
A. adj.
1. Worthy of being loved, lovable; lovely.In later use passing into sense A. 3.
a. Of a person or God. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > quality of being lovable > [adjective]
lieflyOE
lovesomeOE
lovelyOE
leesomec1200
loveful?c1225
love-worthc1225
loveworthya1250
amiablea1375
lovablec1422
amorousa1425
amable1492
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 586 (MED) Þat amiabul maide alisaundrine a-hiȝt.
a1475 J. Shirley Death James (BL Add. 5467) in Miscellanea Scotica (1818) II. 10 (MED) A full gentill squyer..right amyable, whome the Kyng entierly loved as his owne sone.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judith x. 4 She was exceadinge amyable and welfauoured in all mens eyes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iv. 59 While she kept it, T'would make her amiable, and subdue my father. View more context for this quotation
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) ii. vi. 116 The infinitely amiable and glorious Deity.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 162. ¶4 We..are amiable or odious in the Eyes of our great Judge.
1817 Port Folio Dec. 459 He had married a woman of some beauty..; and (what made her appear still more amiable in his eyes) she had brought him a fortune more than adequate to his expectations.
1905 A. Urban Teachers' Handbk. Biblical Hist. lx. 306 We must love God with all the powers and capabilities of our soul, because He is the supreme and most amiable God.
b. Of a thing. Obsolete.Later use of amiable dwelling is probably in allusion to Psalm 83:1 (King James Version): cf. quot. 1535.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adjective]
winsomea900
sweetc900
likingeOE
i-quemec950
lieflyOE
winlyOE
hereOE
thankfulc1000
merryOE
queemc1175
beina1200
willea1200
leesomec1200
savouryc1225
estea1250
i-wilc1275
winc1275
welcomea1300
doucea1350
well-pleasingc1350
acceptablea1382
pleasablea1382
pleasanta1382
pleaseda1382
acceptedc1384
amiablec1384
well-likinga1387
queemfulc1390
flattering1393
pleasinga1398
well-queeminga1400
comelyc1400
farrandc1400
greable1401
goodlyc1405
amicable?a1425
placablec1429
amene1433
winful1438
listyc1440
dulcet1445
agreeablec1450
favourousc1485
sweetly?a1500
pleasureful?c1502
dulcea1513
grate1523
prettya1529
plausible1541
jolly1549
dulcoratec1550
toothsome1551
pleasurable1557
tickling1558
suavec1560
amenous1567
odoriferous?1575
perfumed1580
glada1586
tickle1593
pleasurous1595
favoursome1601
dulcean1606
gratifying1611
Hyblaean1614
gratulatea1616
arrident1616
solacefula1618
pleasantable1619
placid1628
contentsome1632
sapid1640
canny1643
gustful1647
peramene1657
pergrateful1657
tastefula1659
complacent1660
placentiousa1661
gratifactorya1665
bland1667
suavious1669
palatable1683
placent1683
complaisant1710
nice1747
tasty1796
sweetsome1799
titbit1820
connate1836
cunning1843
mooi1850
gemütlich1852
sympathique1859
congenial1878
sympathetic1900
sipid1908
onkus1910
sympathisch1911
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Amos v. 11 Ȝe shuln plante most amyable [L. amantissimas] vyne ȝerdis.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 156 Gode blode is..pure in odour and amiable [?c1425 Paris louesome; L. amicabilis] in sapour.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxxiii. 1 How amiable [a1382 Wycliffite, E.V. looued; 1611 amiable] are thy dwellinges, thou Lorde of hoostes?
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xcvi. 138 Of savour and smell more amiable or pleasant.
1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xxxvi. 85 They keep their Churches so cleanly and Amiable.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 513 It was no amiable thing to be a Province to Spain.
1722 R. Steele Conscious Lovers (1755) ii. i. 35 To tear his amiable Image from my Heart.
1821 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. ii. 28 Even the colours with which the painter had adorned her hair were not more golden, more amiable to sight, than those which played round and tantalised my fancy ere I saw the picture.
1867 M. Arnold Heine's Grave in New Poems 197 This amiable home of the dead.
1925 E. F. Benson Mother iii. 85 It..seemed a terribly amiable dwelling.
2. Chiefly in regard to behaviour or attitude towards others: friendly, kindly.In later use passing into sense A. 3.
a. Of a person. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adjective]
holdc893
friendOE
fellowly?c1225
couthlyc1275
friendfulc1379
amiablea1382
commonc1384
queema1400
lovely1409
acquaintablea1425
familiarc1425
great1483
friendlikea1500
towardly15..
amicable1532
friendable1569
amical1580
graceful?1593
accostable1611
amicous1676
lovable1691
clever1758
unchilled1794
tosh1821
mately1822
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xviii. 24 A man amyable [L. vir amicalis] to felashipe mor a frend shal be, than a brother.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. pr. vi. l. 1662 Amyable fortune with hir flaterynges draweth mys wandrynge men fro the souereyne good.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xix. f. xxii/1 One namyd Phylemon, whyche was moche amyable & debonayr to the peple.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) viii. l. 2344 Gud nychtbure, And amyabil, he trowit, compositoure.
1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde lxxvi. f. 123v The people of that countrey is as obediente, and as amiable as is possible.
1655 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes V. ix. iii. 148 Whether she be merry or serious, she is alwayes equally amiable to all her friends.
1687 tr. C. Gobinet Instr. Youth in Christian Piety iv. xvii. 355 Accustom your self to consider all Men as your Brethren, and in this Quality to desire Good to all of them. Be meek and amiable to all.
b. Of speech, behaviour, etc. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adjective] > (of words or conduct) friendly
smoothc1400
amiablec1405
goodlyc1405
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Hengwrt) (2003) §12 Wt amyable wordes hir to reconforte.
c1460 J. Lydgate Praise of Peace l. 51 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 787 Froward cheerys pees makith amyable.
1537 in R. W. Ingram Rec. Early Eng. Drama: Coventry (1981) 145 In consideracion & recompense of which Aimeable surrender & gifte.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 226 Lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Fords wife. View more context for this quotation
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 459. ¶12 Giving us more amiable Ideas of the Supreme Being.
1797 M. Noble Mem. House Medici xviii. 356 One of the first transactions that marked his approaching manhood, was his amiable behaviour towards Carlo Gonzaga, duke of Mantua.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 602 The rebels..proceeded to Wells, and arrived there in no amiable temper.
3. Chiefly in regard to disposition or mood, or the actions associated with such a disposition or mood: characterized by friendliness; having or characteristic of a friendly and pleasant nature or character, good-natured; affable, sociable.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adjective] > and worthy
amiable1749
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. vii. 196 The amiable Temper of Pity. View more context for this quotation
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. vi. 122 That amiable prince soon acquired the affections of the public.
1816 G. Crabb Eng. Synonymes 74 An amiable disposition, without a lovely person, will render a person beloved. It is distressing to see any one who is lovely in person to be unamiable in character.
1859 Economist 5 June 624/1 A shrewd observation and some humour are shown in the sketches of the neighbouring families, and of the kind-hearted, amiable dunce of the Wyecombe family.
1896 L. Becke Ebbing of Tide 242 He..asked the mate, in an amiable tone of voice, if he had ‘any (ruddy) noospapers from Sydney’.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xix. 210 ‘You'd think I ought to let Anne go to the moon if she took the notion, I've no doubt,’ was Marilla's amiable rejoinder.
1968 E. Wilson Jrnl. June in Sixties: Last Jrnl. (1993) 717 Paul Horgan read a little éloge, and we exchanged some amiable kidding.
2011 N.Y. Mag. 28 Mar. 54/2 A classic Irish pub with amiable, be-paunched bartenders.
4. Originally and chiefly U.S. Well-disposed, favourably inclined to (also towards) an immaterial thing.
ΚΠ
1875 W. D. Howells Foregone Concl. v. 72 That foreign eccentricity to which their nation is so amiable.
1914 R. P. Walton Names, Dates, & Numbers ix. 45 If we desire musical success, let us endeavor to be amiable to the musical currents and not antagonistic.
1921 Oregon Voter 17 Dec. 31 The present bus and truck operators are..amiable toward the proposal to regulate them.
2002 D. L. Hart Year of Rat vii. 42 Andy appeared to be amiable to the idea.
B. n.
colloquial. to do (also make, play, etc.) the amiable: to behave amiably; to engage in pleasant conversation. Cf. do v. 19b. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1811 Lit. Panorama July 93 At Brighton—a ball at the castle..saw her—sweet, sickly, smiling, gay, young, and awkward..introduced—made the amiable, talked as much nonsense as would fill a novel.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 342 My lady, who has..to do the amiable at her humdrum rows.
1831 M. M. Sherwood Roxobel III. iv. 77 When a family is suffering under severe distress, it is certainly revolting to see a member of the household endeavouring to play the amiable, and to shew off her supposed sensibilities.
1854 L. H. de Bonelli Trav. Bolivia I. 28 The young gentlemen of our party began to buck up and tried to outvie each other in doing the amiable.
1879 K. E. Stantial tr. J. von Dewall Marriage Tie viii. 143 Cousin Thaddeus soon began to play the amiable to the blooming Mélanie.
1954 Minnesota Hist. 37 141/2 The officers ‘do the amiable’ as well as they can amid the rush of the representatives of the Atlantic shores.

Compounds

C1. With present participles, forming adjectives in which amiable expresses the complement of the underlying verb, as in amiable-looking, amiable-seeming, etc., adjs.
ΚΠ
1815 Statesman 14 Dec.‘do the amiable’ Pretending..a wish to know her with the professed disposition to serve her, by getting her, or giving her, a better employment, as ‘a neat, modest, amiable-looking girl’.
1851 W. Howitt Madam Dorrington of Dene II. iii. 42 Crime, astonishing, motiveless, staring forth from the most lovely and amiable-seeming forms.
1938 Country Life 17 Dec. p. xliv/1 A few days ago at a dinner-party I felt greatly enraged against a pleasant-looking, amiable-seeming, twinkling-eyed man sitting opposite me at table.
1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Dec. 17/4 This particular group includes a soft-spoken, London-based Saudi journalist..and an amiable-looking Algerian hippie with a Rastafarian-style hairdo.
C2.
amiable number n. either of a pair of numbers, each of which equals the sum of all the factors of the other, excluding the number itself; = amicable number n. at amicable adj. Compounds.The smallest pair of amiable numbers is 220 and 284.
ΚΠ
1721 E. Hatton Intire Syst. Arithm. Introd. 2 Amiable Numbers, are 2 such, as that the Sum of the Aliquot Parts of one, will make up the other Number alternately.
1817 T. Leybourn Math. Questions II. 10 Mr. Stone's theorem, in his Mathematical Dictionary, for finding amiable numbers, is erroneous.
1998 A. W. Binks et al. Fund. Math. for Caribbean (new ed.) III. 283/1 Sum of factors of 220 = 284 and sum of factors of 284 = 220; 220 and 284 are amiable numbers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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