Amanse

Origin

From Middle English amansen, amansien, from Old English āmānsumian ("to excommunicate, anathematize, curse, proscribe, outlaw", literally to disjoin), from a- ("out, without") + ġemāna ("community, company, common property, communion, companionship, intercourse, cohabitation") + -sumian, equivalent to - + mone("companion, companionship") + + -some. Cognate with Old High German armeinsamōn ("to excommunicate").

Full definition of amanse

Verb

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To excommunicate; interdict.
• 1781, Jacob Bryant, Thomas Chatterton, Observations upon the poems of Thomas Rowley:From hence it is plain, that the amanased, or amansed nations were the infidel Saracens.
2. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To ban; curse; accurse.

Derived terms

• amansed
• amansing

Related terms

• manse