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amicable, a.|ˈæmɪkəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. amīcābil-is (a word of Roman law), f. amīc-us friend, connected with amā-re to love. The earlier form was amiable through OFr.; cf. appliable, which preceded applicable.]
1. gen. Friendly.
1532T. Audeley in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 109 II. 24 The most joyous and amycable assemblie and meting of his Grace and the French Kinge. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. Apol. 22 The most amicable expressions. 1717Pope Eloïsa 301 Each mild, each amicable guest. 1748Anson Voy. iii. vi. (ed. 4) 468 We once more arrived in an amicable port. 1835Sir J. Ross N.-W. Pass. v. 72 The amicable and good-tempered manner. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) I. vi. 355 She had frequently, by amicable embassies, warned her brother of Spain.
2. esp. Of mutual arrangements: Done in a friendly spirit, with mutual goodwill, or without quarrelling or employment of force; peaceable, harmonious. amicable suit: an action instituted by mutual understanding between the parties concerned, in order to secure an authoritative decision on a point of law.
1609Skene Reg. Maj. (Table) 65 Amicabill composition is ane aggreance be arbitrie, conforme to ane paction agreid betwixt the parteis. c1680in Somers Tracts II. 272 Their Insolence..declares them to be above the humble Dispensation of an amicable Composure. 1780Burke Sp. Econ. Ref. Wks. III. 247 Amicable arrangements with a friend in power. 1794S. Williams Hist. Vermont 249 An amicable settlement of all differences. 1865Livingstone Zambesi iii. 79 We entered into amicable relations with the chief.
†3. Of things: Kindly, benign, genial. Obs.
1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iv. 127 Balsam of Peru..its amicable and peculiar faculty in strengthening the Nerves. 1691Ray Creation (1714) 214 No amicable verdure of Herbs.
b. amicable (or amiable) numbers: ‘numbers which are mutually equal to the whole sum of each other's aliquot parts. Such are the numbers 284 and 220.’ Chambers Cycl. (1727–51).
1796Hutton Math. Dict. I. 104/2 F. Schooten..I believe first gave the name of amicable to such numbers. 1816T. Taylor (title) Theoretic Arithmetic..together with some remarkable Particulars respecting Perfect, Amicable, and other Numbers. |