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Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; -- applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters.

To make sharp or pointed. [Obs.]

Of, relating to, or mixed with, carmine; as, carminated lake. Tomlinson.

Expelling wind from the body; warning; antispasmodic. "Carmenative hot seeds." Dunglison.

A toll for passage through a forest. [Obs.] Cowell.

Of or pertaining to a cognomen; of the nature of a surname.

A cognomen or surname. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance. With terrible comminations to all them that did resist. I. Taylor.

Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms. B. Jonson.

A joint accusation.

Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.

Capable of being contaminated.

rupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile. Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes Shak. I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. Goldsmith.

The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

Having the same bounds; terminating at the same time or place; conterminous. Love and life not conterminable. Sir H. Wotton.

Conterminous.

Having the same limits; ending at the same time; conterminous. Lamb.

Having the same bounds; conterminous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Guilty of crime or sin. The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God. Rogers.

One versed in criminal law. [R.]