aspectant

aspectant

English

Noun

aspectant (plural aspectants)

1. (heraldry) Animals placed face to face in a charge.

Adjective

aspectant (not comparable)

1. Face to face.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.178:

     Blinking in a yellowlit housewindow two faces fixed aspectant in some domestic tragedy. Rapid his progress who petrifies these innocents into stony history.

See also

• combatant

References

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at

Anagrams

• pancettas

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Latin

Verb

aspectant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of aspectō