lacerant
See also: lacérant
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lacerant (not comparable)
- lacerating
- 1785, Christopher Hervey, Letters from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany..., page 225:
- Sixthly, one upon the left temple, with laceration of the integuments and entire fracture of the bone, till part of the matter of the brain came out; made by an instrument incident and lacerant.
- 1918, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 1225:
- The method of protecting typewriting consisting in employing a typewriter embodying a platen, the usual types and an inked ribbon, inserting a material having a lacerant surface between the platen and the paper to be written upon, […]
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]lacerant