clymant

English

Adjective

clymant (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of climant
   • 1794, Philip Parsons, The Monuments and Painted Glass of Upwards of One Hundred Churches, Chiefly in the Eastern Part of Kent, […], Canterbury: […] Simmons, Kirkby, and Jones;  […], page 387:

     8 [field] “charged with a bend Argent, bearing 3 goats clymant.

   • 1901, Howel Wills, Florentine Heraldry: A Supplement to the Guide-books, page 128:

     Bellincioni : Gules, a goat clymant argent. Benci : Or, two lions combatant azure, in base, a mountain of three tops of the second.

   • 1978, Christopher J. Brunner, Sasanian Stamp Seals in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 93:

     Somewhat further removed is a stucco plaque with two goats clymant by a grapevine (Erdmann, no. 38).

Further reading

• 1858, Ellen J. Millington, Heraldry in History, Poetry, and Romance, London : Chapman and Hall, page 381:

  CLYMANT. Salient; applied to the goat.

• 1866, Hugh Clark, An Introduction to Heraldry ... Eighteenth edition. Revised and corrected by J. R. Planché, page 108:

  CLYMANT, a term sometimes used to describe a goat when reared on its hind legs : see SALIENT.

• 1893, John Edwin Cussans, Handbook of Heraldry: With Instructions for Tracing Pedigrees and Deciphering Ancient Mss., Rules for the Appointment of Liveries, &c, page 90:

  CLYMANT : A term applied to Goats when in a rampant position.