Noah Webster
Amiable
A'MIABLE, adjective [Latin amabilis; from amo, to love.]
1. Lovely; worth of love; deserving of affection; applied usually to persons. But in Psalms 84:1, there is an exception, 'How amiable are the tabernacles, O Lord.'
2. Pretending or showing love.
Lay amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife.
But this use is not legitimate.