Word Meanings - AMENTUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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• AMENTIA
  Imbecility; total want of understanding.
• AMENTIFORM
  Shaped like a catkin.
• AMENTACEOUS
  Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence. Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.
• AMENTUM
  See AMENT
• AMENT
  A species of inflorescence; a catkin. The globular ament of a buttonwood. Coues.
• AMENTIFEROUS
  Bearing catkins. Balfour.
• UNSACRAMENT
  To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism.
• LAMENTING
  Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
• NUCAMENTACEOUS
  Like a nut either in structure or in being indehiscent; bearing one-seeded nutlike fruits.
• TRISACRAMENTARIAN
  One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
• FILAMENTOUS
  Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
• PALUDAMENTUM
  Antiq.) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers.
• DELINEAMENT
  Delineation; sketch. Dr. H. More.
• ELIQUAMENT
  A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• NIDAMENTAL
  of, pertaining to, or baring, eggs or egg capsules; as, the nidament capsules of certain gastropods; nidamental glands. See Illust. of Dibranchiata.
• SACRAMENTALLY
  In a sacrament manner.
• SACRAMENTALIST
  One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist. Shipley.
• ARMAMENTARY
  An armory; a magazine or arsenal.
• ATRAMENTAL; ATRAMENTOUS
  Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.
• APPROPRIAMENT
  What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification. If you can neglect Your own appropriaments. Ford.
• PREDICAMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to a predicament. John Hall .
• PALUDAMENT
  See PALUDAMENTUM
• LAMENTED
  Mourned for; bewailed. This humble praise,lamented shade ! receive. Pope.