mountant
English
Etymology
mount + -ant
Adjective
mountant (comparative more mountant, superlative most mountant)
- (archaic) Rising
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens:
- Hold up, you sluts, / Your aprons mountant
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Noun
mountant (plural mountants)
- (microscopy) The medium used for mounting a slide
- 2004, Cletus P. Kurzman & Jack W. Fell, “Yeasts”, in Biodiversity of Fungi, →ISBN, page 335:
- Both mountants can be placed on the same slide, with spores placed in each.
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- (photography, dated) The adhesive used to affix a photograph to a mount
- 1911, Bernard Edward Jones, Encyclopedia of Photography, 1964 reprint edition, →ISBN, page 365:
- The favourite professional mountant was, and to some extent still is, starch paste.
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Related terms
- montant
Middle English
Alternative forms
- mountaunt
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French montant; equivalent to mounten + -ant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmuːntant/, /munˈtau̯nt/
Noun
mountant (plural mountantes)
- (rare) A post or vertical beam.
- (rare, astrology) ascendant
Descendants
- English: montant
References
- “mǒuntaunt (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-08.