Stipulate vs Amend - What's the difference?
stipulate | amend |
To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.
(botany) Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.
To make better.
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, passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To become better.
(obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.x:
*, II.2.6.ii:
To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
As verbs the difference between stipulate and amend
is that stipulate is to require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement while amend is to make better.As an adjective stipulate
is (botany) having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.stipulate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(stipulat)Derived terms
* stipulated * stipulation * stipulativeEtymology 2
Adjective
(-)Antonyms
* exstipulateamend
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Verb
(en verb)- Mar not the thing that cannot be amended .
- We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
- But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend .
- he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended .