Amend

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: ἔχω Κομψότερον (Strong'S #2192, #2866 — Verb — echo kompsoteron — ekh'-o komp-sot'-er-on )

lit., "to have more finely," i.e., "to be better," is used in  John 4:52 , "to ammend." The latter word in the phrase is the comparative of kompsos, "elegant, nice, fine." Cp. Eng., "he's doing nicely."

King James Dictionary

Amend', L. emendo, of e neg, and menda, mendum, a fault. See mend.

1. To correct to rectify by expunging a mistake as, to amend a law. 2. To reform, by quitting bad habits to make better in a moral sense as, to amend our ways or our conduct. 3. To correct to supply a defect to improve or make better, by some addition of what is wanted, as well as by expunging what is wrong, as to amend a bill before a legislature. Hence it is applied to the correction of authors, by restoring passages which had been omitted, or restoring the true reading.

Amend', To grow or become better, by reformation, or rectifying something wrong in manners or morals. It differs from improve, in this, that to amend implies something previously wrong to improve, does not.

Amend', A pecuniary punishment, or fine. The amende honorable, in France, is an infamous punishment inflicted on traitors, parricides and sacrilegious persons. The offender,being led into court with a rope about his neck, begs pardon of his God, the court, &c. These words denote also a recantation in open court, or in presence of the injured person.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (v. t.) by supplying deficiencies;

(2): (v. t.) by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.

(3): (v. i.) To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.

(4): (v. t.) To change or modify in any way for the better

(5): (v. t.) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;