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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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264 words match “STAMEN”

STAMEN n. 2 definitions

A thread; especially, a warp thread.

Furnished with stamens.

TESTAMENT n. 2 definitions

of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter. He is the mediator of the new testament . . . for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament. Heb. ix. 15. Holograp…

Of or pertaining to a testament; testamentary. Thy testamental cup I take, And thus remember thee. J. Montgomery.

TESTAMENTARY a. 3 definitions

Of or pertaining to a will, or testament; as, letters testamentary.

TESTAMENTATION n.

The act or power of giving by testament, or will. [R.] Burke.

TESTAMENTIZE v.

To make a will. [Obs.] Fuller.

Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.

of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

ACCOMMODATION n.

something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.

A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord".

ual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.

Destitute of stamen

The stamens of a flower taken collectively.

ANDROPETALOUS a.

Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

A support or column on which stamens are raised. Gray.

Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.