verb. (colloquial).—To finish a matter: as AMEN does a prayer; to approve; to ratify. TO SAY YES AND AMEN = to agree to everything (GROSE); AMENER = a general conformist.
1812. SOUTHEY, Letters, ii. 281. Yea verily, this very evening have I AMEN’D the volume.
1854. THACKERAY, The Newcomes, lvii. Is there a bishop on the bench that has not AMEN’D the humbug in his lawn sleeves, and called a blessing over the kneeling pair of perjurers?
