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issuant, a. (n.)|ˈɪʃ(j)uːənt, ˈɪsjuː-|
[f. issue v. + -ant1, after F. pr. pples. in -ant.]
1. Issuing or proceeding from a place or source. Now rare.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 7 Out of that Cloud is issuant so forcible a whirle-wind, as breeds feare and admiration. 1642tr. Perkins' Prof. Bk. i. §13. 7 A rent charge to be issuant out of the same Carue. 1660Waterhouse Arms & Arm. 81 Commensurate to the Knowledge we have of that thing or person, and issuant from it as the tribute we give to that Excellency of worth we apprehend. 1839Bailey Festus xxxi. (1852) 528 Issuant from the eternal throne, Came like a cloud of light, the bright response.
2. Her. Emerging from the bottom of a chief, or (less usually) rising from another bearing or from the bottom of an escutcheon. Said esp. of a beast of which the upper half alone is visible. Cf. issant.
issuant and revertant, ‘emerging and disappearing’; said of two beasts on a shield when only the lower part of one and the upper part of the other are seen.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. ix. (1611) 111 He beareth Azure, Issuant out of a Mount, in Base, three Wheate stalkes, Bladed and Eared, all Proper...A Venetian Coate-armour. Ibid. xv. 142 This Lion is said to be issuant because he doth issue from out of the bottome of the Chiefe. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 113 There are also three demy Lions issuant out of the Wall, from the Head to half the Body. 1823Rutter Fonthill p. xxiii, Issuant out of a ducal coronet, Or, an oak-tree fructed.
†B. n. Something that issues or juts out. Obs.
1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 202 The little Issuants at Top denote the Table may be increased as occasion requires. |