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

• combatant

References

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Anagrams

• pancettas

Latin

Verb

aspectant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of aspectō