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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

firmamental en · ADJ

Etymology

From firmament + -al (“of, pertaining to”, suffix forming an adjective).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of, belonging to, or relating to the firmament or heavens; celestial.
    • But there were certain early winter days in Casterbridge—days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests—when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet. 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter XX, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
  2. (not-comparable, rare) Of, belonging to, or relating to support or strengthening.