0 present participle of amend --
1 to change the words of a text, especially a law or a legal document: --
Men and women who had a fluid approach to gendered assumptions, amending them to adapt to changes in the lifecycle, were the most successful in achieving satisfying lifestyles.
Between these two poles can be found a number of gradated positions that might be better characterized in terms of elasticity: of bending, testing, amending, or re-writing the rules.
While only congress had the power to amend the constitution, the government claimed that the normal process of amending the constitution would be too slow.
The general histories of the amending process provide fairly quick and straight8.
However, in spite of this the play was passed since the censor was able to use the strategy of cutting and amending offending passages.
Where new material seemed to him important, he busied himself with scissors and pastepot, amending sections and appending new material in illustrative footnotes.
The code may also contain higher-order rules for amending the rules and the rights distributed by them.
Some contributors revisit their sources with a view to amending our overall picture.
