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▪ I. amental, a.1 (and n.) Bot.|əˈmɛntəl|
[f. L. ament-um + -al1.]
Bearing catkins; epithet of one of Lindley's alliances of Gymnogens.
1847Lindley V.K. (ed. 2) 254 Amental Exogens. Ibid. 248 Natural Orders of Amentals. 1866Balfour in Treas. Bot. 140 The amental or catkin-bearing alliance of Lindley.
▪ II. aˈmental, a.2 rare.
[f. Gr. ἀ priv. + mental, intentionally analogous to a-theistic.]
Denying or dispensing with the existence of mind or intelligence. Also, non-mental.
1877E. Conder Basis of Faith vii. 293 The strict parallel to the atheistic theory of creation would be an amental theory of any art,—say painting; showing how the art and its products were evolved by slow historic gradations from the scratches made by passing boulders on the rocks..without any intervention of human intellect. 1938S. Beckett Murphy xi. 247 An amental pattern as precise as any of those that governed his chess. |