Meanings
plural scitaments
- 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 Redcap1 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
- Latinscitamenta“delicacies; refinements of speech”
- Englishscitament
Borrowing from Latin scitamenta (“delicacies; refinements of speech”)
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