scitament

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin scitamenta (“delicacies; refinements of speech”)

Noun

scitament (plural scitaments)

  1. A pleasant dish or delicacy.
  2. (figuratively) A witty conversation.
    • 1843, anonymous author, Mother Redcap:
      The opsonator, not to be foiled, sermocinated with protervity and used an acyrology which was by him considered the plerophory of scitament. The agnodice being scaturiginous with anger, synoicciosinated to his scitament, and pushing the door in his face terminated the sanallagmatic action.
    • 2018, Ryan G. McClaren, Uncertainty Quantification and Predictive Computational Science:
      Before embarking on a journey to make predictions with simulations, we will have a short scitament regarding the theoretical limits of how we make predictions and the path that scientific progress has taken to get to the current state of affairs where we believe we can make predictions with an understanding of the uncertainty in those predictions.
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