aspectant

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

aspectant (not comparable)

  1. Face to face (especially heraldry).
    • 1961, Jack Adolphe Reynolds, Heraldry and You: Modern Heraldic Usage in America, Edinburgh; New York : Nelson:
      CARROLL - Argent, two lions erect aspectant gules supporting a sword proper. Carroll,  […]
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 178:
      Blinking in a yellowlit housewindow two faces fixed aspectant in some domestic tragedy. Rapid his progress who petrifies these innocents into stony history.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

aspectant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of aspectō
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=aspectant&oldid=75269911"