amanse

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 a- +‎ mone (“companion, companionship”) + -some. Cognate with Old High German armeinsamōn (“to excommunicate”).

• IPA^(key): /əˈmænz/

amanse (third-person singular simple present amanses, present participle amansing, simple past and past participle amansed)

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.

• amansed
• amansing

• manse

• Samean, Seaman, Semaan, seaman

amanse

1. inflection of amansar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

amanse

1. inflection of amansar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative