atramentous

[ a-truh-men-tuhs ]

adjective

, Rare.

1. black, like ink.

Word History and Origins

Origin of atramentous¹

First recorded in 1640–50; from Latin ātrāment(um) “ink” + -ous ( def )

Example Sentences

It glanced only forward, its atramentous citron eyes fixating on its prey.

From BBC

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From Time

His various erudition, as “armour patched up of a thousand incoherent pieces;” his book, as “the sound” of that armour, “loud and dry, like that made by the fall of a sheet of lead from the roof of some steeple;” his haughty intrepidity, as “a vizor of brass, tainted by his breath, corrupted into copperas, nor wanted gall from the same fountain; so that, whenever provoked by anger or labour, an atramentous quality of most malignant nature was seen to distil from his lips.”

From Project Gutenberg

And though neither of these Atramentous liquors will seem other than very Pale Ink, if you write with a clean Pen dipt in them, yet that is common to them with some sorts of Ink that prove very good when Dry, as I have also found, that when I made these carefully, what I wrote with either of them, especially with the Former, would when throughly Dry grow Black enough not to appear bad Ink.

From Project Gutenberg

His helmet was of old rusty iron, but the vizor was brass, which, tainted by his breath, corrupted into copperas, nor wanted gall from the same fountain, so that, whenever provoked by anger or labour, an atramentous quality, of most malignant nature, was seen to distil from his lips. 

From Project Gutenberg

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