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scitament

scitament noun: a pleasant dish or delicacy.

Noun

scitament (plural scitaments)

  1. A pleasant dish or delicacy.
  2. (figuratively) A witty conversation.
    • The opsonator, not to be foiled, sermocinated with protervity and used an acyrology which was by him considered the plerophory of scitament. The agnodice being scaturiginous with anger, synoicciosinated to his scitament, and pushing the door in his face terminated the sanallagmatic action.1843, anonymous author, Mother Redcap
    • Before embarking on a journey to make predictions with simulations, we will have a short scitament regarding the theoretical limits of how we make predictions and the path that scientific progress has taken to get to the current state of affairs where we believe we can make predictions with an...2018, Ryan G. McClaren, Uncertainty Quantification and Predictive Computational Science

Forms of scitament

pluralscitaments

Origin of scitament

Borrowing from Latin scitamenta (“delicacies; refinements of speech”)

Questions about scitament

What does scitament mean?
Scitament means a pleasant dish or delicacy.
What part of speech is scitament?
Scitament is a noun.
What is the plural of scitament?
The plural of scitament is scitaments.

Words near scitament in the dictionary

  1. scissure
  2. scissurellid
  3. scissurellids
  4. scissures
  5. scita
  6. scitament
  7. scitaments
  8. scitaminaceous
  9. scitamineous
  10. scite
  11. Scithers

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