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The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense in a new instrumentality. J. H. Newman.

South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke.

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

Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.

Of or pertaining to medicaments or healing applications; having the qualities of medicaments. -- Med`ica*men"tal*ly, adv.

Lasting but a moment; brief. Not one momental minute doth she swerve. Breton.

For a moment. [Obs.]

Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.

By way of memorial.

to, or baring, eggs or egg capsules; as, the nidament capsules of certain gastropods; nidamental glands. See Illust. of Dibranchiata.

Nutritious.

Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta.

to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.

By way of ornament.

Parliamentary. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a pediment.

Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments. Dunglison. Pigmentary degeneration (Med.), a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.

Of or pertaining to a predicament. John Hall (1646).

Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding. [R.] Coleridge.

Recrementitious.