lacerant

See also: lacérant

English

Adjective

lacerant (not comparable)

  1. lacerating
    • 1785, Christopher Hervey, Letters from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany..., page 225:
      Sixthly, one upon the left temple, with laceration of the integuments and entire fracture of the bone, till part of the matter of the brain came out; made by an instrument incident and lacerant.
    • 1918, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 1225:
      The method of protecting typewriting consisting in employing a typewriter embodying a platen, the usual types and an inked ribbon, inserting a material having a lacerant surface between the platen and the paper to be written upon, […]

Latin

Verb

lacerant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of lacerō
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