v. Obs. Forms: 1 amánsumi-an, ? amánsi-an, 2–3 amansi-en, amansi, 4 amonsi. [f. A- pref. 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.
