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Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.

Unbloody; not attended with blood; as, an incruental sacrifice. [Obs.] Brevint.

as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business. The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth. Shak.

The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n.

One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.

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.

Between or among continents; subsisting or carried on between continents; as, intercontinental relations or commerce.

Situated between teeth; as, an interdental space, the space between two teeth in a gear wheel.

A labiodental sound or letter.

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

Formed or uttered by the joint use of the tongue and teeth, or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth; dentolingual, as the letters d and t.

Linguadental.

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

Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.

Quality or state of mind. "The same hard mentality." Emerson.

In the mind; in thought or meditation; intellectually; in idea.

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

For a moment. [Obs.]