Talk:tergant

RFV discussion: July 2023–July 2024

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tergant

(Heraldry.) I can only find this in the form tergiant, notwithstanding that the ultimate etymon tergum has no i. - -sche (discuss) 21:10, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

I've added two uses in a non-heraldic context to Citations:tergant. Einstein2 (talk) 21:27, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Fascinating. Can anyone find a third cite? (Pimbley's dictionary has "Tergant―(ter'-gant) Showing the back part; as, an eagle tergant displayed." but this is not really a use, it's a made-up example.) - -sche (discuss) 01:31, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

I found this, but the sense doesn't work: it seems like an error for terse(?):

• 1965, United States House Committee on Education and Labor, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on the War on Poverty Program, Examination of the War on Poverty Program: Hearings..., page 585:

  DR GIOSCIA. [...] I might, since they are short, if I may[,] read the sentences I originally wrote because they are rather simple and I hope tergant.

And here, someone attests to the use of the word, but does not themself use it, merely mentioning it:

• 1949, The New Mexico Quarterly Review, volume 19, page 494:

  The first period is stylistically the worst, full of adolescent "poetic" writing, cheap ironic effects, high-flown words like "rescission," "tergant," and "macillant," and plain grammatical error.

There's also a Thomas Browne quote about "a thicker tergant" which also seems like a different sense (and POS), and there are scannos of "servant" in handwritten, embroidered, and carved texts Google has digitized, but I simply cannot find a third use in books. There are some uses online, [1] [2] [3] [4], but ... - -sche (discuss) 07:35, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Well, after nearly a year, failed for now, unless anyone wants to accept the uses in online heraldry. It has only two uses in books; I checked Google Books and Internet Archive again and couldn't find any more. Hopefully a third book gets digitized (or written) at some point. - -sche (discuss) 03:32, 3 July 2024 (UTC)