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Hamated vs Amated - What's the difference?

hamated | amated |

As adjectives the difference between hamated and amated

is that hamated is hooked, or set with hooks; hamate while amated is overwhelmed, confused.

As a verb amated is

past tense of amate.

hamated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate.
  • * Jonathan Swift, The Mechanical Operation of Spirit:
    • Farther, that nothing less than a violent Heat, can disentangle these Creatures [animal spirits] from their hamated station of Life, or give them Vigor and Humor, to imprint the Marks of their little Teeth.
  • * 1802 , Samuel Latham Mitchill, The Medical Repository
    • The jaws were furnished with hooks or hamated teeth, in the manner common to snakes.
    (Webster 1913)

    amated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (amate)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Overwhelmed, confused.
  • * 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book VII:
    • and at som tyme they were so amated that aythir toke others swerde in the stede of his owne.