Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AM'I-CA-BLE, a. [L. amicabilis, from amicus, a friend, from amo to love.]

1. Friendly; peaceable; harmonious in social or mutual transactions; usually applied to the dispositions of men who have business with each other, or to their intercourse and transactions; as, nations or men have come to an amicable adjustment of their differences.
2. Disposed to peace and friendship; as an amicable temper. [But rarely applied to a single person.]