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Webster 1913 Edition
Amid
A-mid′
,p
rep.
See
Amidst
. {
A-midst′
,A-mid′
, }p
rep.
[OE.
amidde
, amiddes
, on midden
, AS. on middan
, in the middle, fr. midde
the middle. The s is an adverbial ending, originally marking the genitive; the t is a later addition, as in whilst
, amongst
, alongst
. See Mid
.] In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among.
“This fair tree amidst the garden.” “Unseen amid the throng.” “Amidst thick clouds.” Milton.
“Amidst acclamations.” “Amidst the splendor and festivity of a court.” Macaulay.
But rather famish them
amid
their plenty. Shakespeare
The seraph Abdiel, faithful found;
Among
the faithless faithful only he, From
amidst
them forth he passed, Those squalid cabins and uncleared woods
amidst
which he was born. Macaulay.