Mend
Bible Usage:
- Bible Reference: 2 Chronicles 24:12
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H2388 Used 1 time
MEND, verb transitive [Latin emendo, menda, a fault, spot or blemish.]
1. To repair, as a breach; to supply a part broken or defective; as, to mend a garment, a road, a mill-dam, a fence, etc.
2. To correct; to set right; to alter for the better; as, to mend the life or manners.
3. To repair; to restore to a sound state; as, to mend a feeble or broken constitution.
4. To help; to advance; to make better.
This plausible apology does not mend the matter.
Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.
5. To improve; to hasten.
He saw the monster mend his pace.
MEND, verb intransitive To grow better; to advance to a better state; to improve. We say, a feeble constitution mends daily; a sick man mends, or is convalescent.
MEND'ABLE, adjective Capable of being mended.
MENDA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin mendax.] Lying; false. [Little used.]
MENDAC'ITY, noun [Latin mendax, false, lying.] Falsehood.
[The proper signification of this word would be a disposition to lie, or habitual lying.]
MEND'ED, participle passive Repaired; made better; improved.
MEND'ER, noun One who mends or repairs.
MEND'ICANCY, adjective [Latin medicans.] Beggary; a state of begging.
MEND'ICANT, adjective [Latin mendicans, from mendico, to beg; allied to Latin mando, to command, demand.]
1. Begging; poor to a state of beggary; as reduced to a mendicant state.
2. Practicing beggary; as a mendicant friar.
MEND'ICANT, noun A beggar; one that makes it his business to beg alms; one of the begging fraternity of the Romish church.
MEND'ICATE, verb transitive To beg, or practice begging. [Not used.]
MENDIC'ITY,noun [Latin mendicitas.]
The state of begging; the life of a beggar.
MENDMENT, for amendment. [Not in use.]
MENDS, for amends, not used.