scitament

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noun

A pleasant dish or delicacy.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounscitament (plural scitaments)

plural scitaments

  1. A pleasant dish or delicacy.
  2. figurativelyA witty conversation.

    The opsonator, not to be foiled, sermocinated with protervity and used an acyrology which was by him considered the plerophory of scitament. The agnodice being scaturiginous with anger, synoicciosinated to his scitament, and pushing the door in his face terminated the sanallagmatic action.

    1843, anonymous author, Mother Redcap
    1 more example

    Before embarking on a journey to make predictions with simulations, we will have a short scitament regarding the theoretical limits of how we make predictions and the path that scientific progress has taken to get to the current state of affairs where we believe we can make predictions with an understanding of the uncertainty in those predictions.

    2018, Ryan G. McClaren, Uncertainty Quantification and Predictive Computational Science

Origin

  1. Latinscitamenta“delicacies; refinements of speech”
  2. Englishscitament

Borrowing from Latin scitamenta (“delicacies; refinements of speech”)

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Chicago

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