a.; also 6 amen, ameyne. [a. OFr. *amene, ad. L. amœnum pleasant, connected with amāre to love. (Godefroi has the adv. amenement pleasantly.) Not uncommon in 15th c.; afterwards only in Sc. writers, with whom it was a favorite word; occasional in Eng. writers of 19th c.] Pleasant, agreeable.
c. 1400. Epiph. (Turnb., 1843), 125. To thi son be for (h)us amene.
c. 1500. Lancelot, 997. The morow blythfull and amen.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 347. The da wes fair, the wedder richt and ameyne.
1578. Ps. li. in Sc. Poems 16th C., II. 112. In heuinly joy, fair and amene.
c. 1820. Fuseli, Lect. Art, xii. (1848), 550. Whatever is commodious, amene, or useful, depends in a great measure on the arts.
1863. R. Burton, Abeokuta, I. 1. The amene delta of the lovely Niger.
