aspectant

English

Adjective

aspectant (not comparable)

  1. Face to face (especially heraldry).
    • 1961, Jack Adolphe Reynolds, Heraldry and You: Modern Heraldic Usage in America, Edinburgh; New York : Nelson:
      CARROLL - Argent, two lions erect aspectant gules supporting a sword proper. Carroll,  […]
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 178:
      Blinking in a yellowlit housewindow two faces fixed aspectant in some domestic tragedy. Rapid his progress who petrifies these innocents into stony history.

See also

References
  • The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

aspectant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of aspectō
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