a. [f. AMEND v. + -ABLE.]

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  † 1.  actively, Able to amend; improving. Obs.

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a. 1600[?].  MS. Ashmole, No. 60. 5 (Halliw.). That til oure lif is ful profitable, and to oure soule amendable.

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  2.  passively, Capable of being amended, corrected, bettered, repaired, made amends for.

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1589.  Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 157. We finde in our English writers many wordes and speaches amendable.

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1614.  Selden, Titles of Hon., 261. Before whom sometimes causes criminall and amendable by amercements or mulcts were heard.

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1674.  Peace & Good Will, 27. Liturgies … are amendable, alterable, upon just occasions.

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1740.  Prov. for Poor, 15. Roads not amendable by Act of Parliament.

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1809.  Tomlins, Law Dict., G ij a/2. The faults and mistakes of clerks are in many cases amendable.

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