ingulphant
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Etymology
[edit]Cognate to engulfing?
Adjective
[edit]ingulphant (not comparable)
- (heraldry, of a fish, whale, etc, uncommon) Swallowing.
- Synonym: vorant
- 1842, Thomas Moule, Heraldry of Fish: Notices of the Principal Families Bearing Fish in Their Arms, London : J. van Voorst, page 48:
- Per pale azure and purpure, three whales' heads erased or, each ingulphant of a spear-head argent, were the arms borne by Sir Hugh Vaughan of Littleton in Middlesex, in the reign of Henry VIII; and were quartered with […]
- 1920, Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage, page 766:
- […] dolphins haurient, respectant and ingulphant of the flukes of an anchor reversed all proper; on a chief azure three mullets of the first.