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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

emolumental en · ADJ

Etymology

From emolument + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to an emolument
  2. (not-comparable) profitable; money-making.
    • emolumental office
    • emolumental profession
    • in all that is laudable and truly emolumental of this Nature . IT is not therefore that I here presume to instruct Him in the Management of that great and august Enterprize of resolving to Plant and repair his ample Forests 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
    • emolumental knowledge