Amateurship
(Am"a*teur`ship), n. The quality or character of an amateur.
Amative
(Am"a*tive) a. [L. amatus, p. p. of amare to love.] Full of love; amatory.
Amativeness
(Am"a*tive*ness), n. (Phren.) The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity
to love. Combe.
Amatorial
(Am`a*to"ri*al) a. [See Amatorious.] Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as,
amatorial verses.
Amatorially
(Am`a*to"ri*al*ly), adv. In an amatorial manner.
Amatorian
(Am`a*to"ri*an) a. Amatory. [R.] Johnson.
Amatorious
(Am`a*to"ri*ous) a. [L. amatorius, fr. amare to love.] Amatory. [Obs.] "Amatorious poem."
Milton.
Amatory
(Am"a*to*ry) a. Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.
Amaurosis
(||Am`au*ro"sis) n. [Gr. fr. dark, dim.] (Med.) A loss or decay of sight, from loss of power
in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; — called also gutta serena, the
"drop serene" of Milton.
Amaurotic
(Am`au*rot"ic) a. Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.
Amaze
(A*maze") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amazed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Amazing.] [Pref. a- + maze.]
1. To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.]
A labyrinth to amaze his foes.
Shak.
2. To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish
greatly. "Amazing Europe with her wit." Goldsmith.
And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
Matt. xii. 23.
Syn. — To astonish; astound; confound; bewilder; perplex; surprise. — Amaze, Astonish. Amazement
includes the notion of bewilderment of difficulty accompanied by surprise. It expresses a state in which
one does not know what to do, or to say, or to think. Hence we are amazed at what we can not in the
least account for. Astonishment also implies surprise. It expresses a state in which one is stunned by
the vastness or greatness of something, or struck with some degree of horror, as when one is overpowered
by the normity of an act, etc.
Amaze
(A*maze"), v. i. To be astounded. [Archaic] B. Taylor.
Amaze
(A*maze"), v. t. Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement. [Chiefly poetic]
The wild, bewildered
Of one to stone converted by amaze.
Byron.
Amazedly
(A*maz"ed*ly) adv. In amazement; with confusion or astonishment. Shak.
Amazedness
(A*maz"ed*ness), n. The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or
wonder. Bp. Hall.
Amazeful
(A*maze"ful) a. Full of amazement. [R.]
Amazement
(A*maze"ment) n.
