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Of or pertaining to written evidence; documentary; as, documental testimony.

Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing. "Documentary evidence." Macaulay.

Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution.

A cromlech. See Cromlech. [Written also tolmen.]

Dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

The heartwood of an exogenous tree.

The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. [R.] Mrs. Oliphant.

Difficult and painful menstruation.

elief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation. In need of every kind of relief and easement. Burke.

up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation. The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer. Clarendon.

The operation performed with an écraseur.

eral; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council. [Written also .] Ecumenical Bishop, a title assumed by the popes. -- Ecumenical council. See under Council.

The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

Instigation; incitement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.

al parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope.

The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.

The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.

According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat; this is my body," elementally understood.