† aˈmanse, v. Obs.
Forms: 1 amánsumi-an, ? amánsi-an, 2–3 amansi-en, amansi, 4 amonsi.
[f. a- prefix 1 out, away + mánsum familiar, intimate + -i-an verbal formative; lit. to dis-familiarize, to put out of intimacy. (Has been erroneously said to be derived from somnung, samnung, congregation.) The contraction to amansi-an app. began in OE. as one MS. of Cnut's Secular Laws has pa. pple. amánsod = amánsumod.]
To excommunicate, anathematize.
| c 800 Bæda iv. §17 (Bosw.) We amansumiaþ mid heortan & mid muþe ða ðe hi amansumedan. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 45 Amansed beo þe mon þe sunne-dei nulle iloken. a 1250 Owl & Night. 1307 Heo were ifurn of prestes muþe Amansed. 1297 R. Glouc. 474 He amansede alle thulke, that such vnriȝt adde ido. c 1308 Pol. Songs 196 To extredite and amonsi al That lafful men doth robbi. |