atramentousadj.
/atrəˈmɛntəs/ Inky, ink-like, black as ink.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as ink
inky1593
sepian1631
atramental1646
atramentous1646
chalcanthous1646
atramentitious1650
inkish1670
atramentaceous1713
atramentarious1717
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 336 The second way whereby bodies become black, is an Atramentous condition. View more context for this quotation
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 38 Not that the solution of Nitre or Salt, contributed anything to this attrimentous curdling.
1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 489 [Brine] becomes Atramentous with galls.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. ii. 92 Snails send out their Eyes..like atramentous Spots, fixed to the end of their Horns.
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