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单词 mendment
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mendmentn.

Brit. /ˈmɛn(d)m(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈmɛn(d)m(ə)nt/
Forms: Middle English mendement, Middle English mendemente, Middle English– mendment; Scottish pre-1700 mendment, pre-1700 1800s mendiment, 1800s menement, 1900s– meniment.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: amendment n.
Etymology: Aphetic < amendment n. Compare Anglo-Norman mendement repairing, mending, amendment, and Middle French mondament (1343), mandement (1371) improvement, amendment.
Now regional.
1. = amendment n.; improvement, reparation, correction, reformation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > [noun]
rightingOE
mendmentc1300
amendment1340
correction1340
amendinga1382
mendinga1400
rectificationa1400
mendnessa1425
redress1448
addressment1481
redressa1529
remedying1547
redub1549
restauration1560
correcting1580
rightening1583
emendation1586
restitution1636
cure1675
reform1700
readjustment1749
remediation1794
redressal1800
redressment1822
c1300 St. Edward Elder (Laud) 174 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 52 Of hire misdedes heo repentede hir sore..And cam to guod mendement.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 23744 (MED) Þis lijf he has vs lent..To hald ai wel his comament, If we do mis, do mendement.
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 989 I am comyn fra the conquerour..for mendemente of the pople.
c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 148 Y wold in alle As poore y were as fortune hath her sent Of good hir peere in alle mendement.
1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Dk. Somerset sig. Aa.v He..would have all thing mended, But by that mendment nothyng els he ment, But to be kyng.
1598 R. Carew Herrings Tayle sig. A3 What Dædale began, and Harrie followed, Art and experience here past mendment perfected.
1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good ii. ii. 68 Bar. Well, well, the world will mend. Bra...the pox of mendment I see.
1640 P. Champernowne in H. Mill Nights Search Where thou giv'st a stripe, 'Tis onely 'mendment that can give them ease.
c1805 in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 260 ‘That was a sin,..But pardond it may be;’ ‘Wi mendiment,’ said King Henry.
1925 Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) Ye widna see muckle sign o' meniment there.
2. Improvement of the soil; (concrete) manure; = amendment n. 1c. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun]
amendment1483
improvement1549
improvinga1563
recoverya1632
mendment1644
cultivation1791
reclaim1799
reclamation1810
intaking1812
redemption1812
clearing1821
reclaimment1852
land reclamation1881
breaking-in1891
greening1955
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > fertilizer or manure
fatnessc1420
amendment1483
manure1532
manuring1577
battling1600
dressing1600
worth1609
sucken1615
folding1626
fertilizera1661
sumen1662
recuperativec1679
field dressing1743
top-dressing1744
sweetener1765
settera1793
mendment1798
side dressing1819
substratum1822
manurer1829
liquid manure1837
soil amendment1915
side dress1920
Growmore1944
soil conditioner1952
1644 G. Plattes in S. Hartlib Legacy (1655) 289 If the mendment of their own lands were the cheapest purchase to the owner [etc.].
1798 J. Middleton View Agric. Middlesex 305 Manure is undoubtedly the great cause of fertility. (The Middlesex farmer says ‘there is nothing to be done without “mendment”’.)
?1842 E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 13 Potash and saltpetre would invigorate corn crops more than any other artificial mendment.
1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 57 Mendment, manure.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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