a. Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. argumentalis. ] Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes. R. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. divided up into compartments or categories. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing. “Complemental ceremony.” Prynne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Complimentary; courteous. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Complemental air (Physiol.), the air (averaging 100 cubic inches) which can be drawn into the lungs in addition to the tidal air, by the deepest possible inspiration. --
Complemental males (Zool.), peculiar small males living parasitically on the ordinary hermaphrodite individuals of certain barnacles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Complimentary. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Languages . . . grow rich and abundant in complimental phrases, and such froth. Sir H. Wotton.

-- Com`pli*men"tal*ly, adv. [Obs.] Boyle. -- Com`pli*men"tal*ness, n. [ Obs. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a department or division. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison.

Syn. -- Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being detrimental; injuriousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to instruction. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to written evidence; documentary; as, documental testimony. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. “Elemental strife.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. “The elemental rules of erudition.” Cawthorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to elements; literally; as, the words, “Take, eat; this is my body, ” elementally understood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a type of large-holed Swiss cheese.
Syn. -- Emmenthal, Emmental, Emmenthaler. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to an emolument; profitable. [ R. ] Evelyn.

adj. 1. of or pertaining to the environment; as, environmental factors. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to the environment (definition 2); as, environmental pollution; environmental disaster; environmental cleanup; environmental deterioration. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

THOUSANDS of dead fish and other marine species, suffocated by a rotting, glutinous morass which spreads over kilometres of coral reefs.
This scenario has all the hallmarks of a unnatural environmental disaster resulting from environmental negligence. However this isn't the case, instead the cause -- coral spawn slick deoxygenation -- is a natural event which has the potential to occur periodically on the reefs of the West Pilbara. Michael Borowitzka (“Natural event spawns environmental disaster” in Murdoch News, October 12, 1995)

a. [ Equi- + momental. ] (Mech.) Having equal moments of inertia. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Two bodies or systems of bodies are said to be equimomental when their moments of inertia about all straight lines are equal each to each. [ 1913 Webster ]

Equimomental cone of a given rigid body, a conical surface that has any given vertex, and is described by a straight line which moves in such manner that the moment of inertia of the given rigid body about the line is in all its positions the same. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to excrement.

a. [ Cf.F. expérimental. ] 1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation; as, the children of psycholoigsts are often raised in an atmosphere of experimentalism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who makes experiments, especially one who likes to experiment; an experimenter. Whaterly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who relies primarily on experimentation and the evidence of one's own senses; an empiricist; -- contrasted with theoretician or dogmatist. [ PJC ]

v. i. To make experiments (upon); to experiment. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fermentative. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Fragmentary. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) Consisting of the pulverized or fragmentary material of rock, as conglomerate, shale, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) A fragmentary rock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. fondamental. ] Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. --
Fundamental chord (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. --
Fundamental colors, red, green, and violet-blue. See Primary colors, under Color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A system of beliefs based on the interpretation of every word in the Bible, both old and new testaments, as literal truth. It is primarily held by a branch of American Protestants. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The beliefs or practises based on a rigid adherence to some traditional doctrine; extreme conservatism; as, Moslem fundamentalism; the political fundamentalism of the Christian right. [ PJC ]

n. a supporter of fundamentalism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to fundamentalists or fundamentalism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. characteristic of a fundamentalist; -- especially, resembling the behavior of a fundamentalist; as, a fundamentalist dislike of new ideas. [ PJC ]

adv. Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. “Fundamentally defective.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. gouvernemental. ] Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hyo- + mental of the chin. ] (Anat.) Between the hyoid bone and the lower jaw, pertaining to them; suprahyoid; submaxillary; as, the hyomental region of the front of the neck. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Things so impedimental to success. G. H. Lewes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, implements or their use; mechanical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affording no aliment or nourishment. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. instrumental. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business. [ 1913 Webster ]

The head is not more native to the heart,
The hand more instrumental to the mouth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. “He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental sounds. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) Applied to a case expressing means or agency; as, the instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit and Russian as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

Instrumental errors, those errors in instrumental measurements, etc., which arise, exclusively from lack of mathematical accuracy in an instrument. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Philos.) The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n.

Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these ideas are biological functions of our organisms, and psychological functions whereby we direct our choices and attain our successes. Josiah Royce. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Instrumentalities The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. [ 1913 Webster ]

The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense in a new instrumentality. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality. [ R. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. depending on judgment; as, a judgmental error. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Inclined to make moral judgements about the behavior of people; -- contrasted with an inclination not to judge the moral qualities of others. Opposite of nonjudgmental. [ Narrower terms: faultfinding(prenominal) ] [ PJC ]