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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.

od; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.

Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.

Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes. R. Owen.

Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing. "Complemental ceremony." Prynne.

Complimentary. [Obs.] Languages . . . grow rich and abundant in complimental phrases, and such froth. Sir H. Wotton. -- Com`pli*men"tal*ly, adv. [Obs.] Boyle. -- Com`pli*men"tal*ness, n. [Obs.] Hammond.

Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.

Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison.

The quality of being detrimental; injuriousness.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.

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

, 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.

Pertaining to an emolument; profitable. [R.] Evelyn.