emolumental
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛntəl
Adjective[edit]
emolumental (not comparable)
- Pertaining to an emolument
- profitable; money-making.
- emolumental knowledge
- emolumental office
- emolumental profession
- 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
- in all that is laudable and truly emolumental of this Nature . IT is not therefore that I here presume to instruct Him in the Management of that great and august Enterprize of resolving to Plant and repair his ample Forests
References[edit]
- “emolumental”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.