mensurative (mensurativ)

[ over us." The third method spoken of may be called the mensura tive. Jour . Franklin Inst . , CXXII. 342. ment1t. An obsolete preterit of mean1 . ment2t. An obsolete preterit of ming1 . ment3t, v. i. A variant of mint3 . -ment. [ME.- ment = OF. and F. -ment = Sp. -mien to = Pg. It. -mento, 3710 That modification of the sublime which arises from a strong expre ion of mental energy. D. Stewart , Philos. E ays, ii. 3. In what manner the mental powers were first developed in the lowest organisms is as hopele an inquiry as how life first originated. Darwin, Descent of Man, I. 35. 2. Done or performed by the mind; due to the action of the mind. By mental analysis we mean the taking apart of a complex whole and attending separately to its parts. J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 335. nature, attributes, or phenomena of the human 3. Relating to the mind; concerned with the intellect: as, mental philosophy; mental sci ences. Mental alienation, insanity. - Mental arithmetic, a ociation, modification, nouns. mental2 (mental), a. [= F. mental, foramen to be distributed to the chin and lower lip. Mental foramen. See foramen. - Mental fo a, a depre ion on the outer surface of the lower jaw-bone for the attachment of the muscle acting upon the chin. Mental nerves, several terminal branches of the inferior dental nerve, i uing from the mental foramen. - Mental point, in craniom., the foremost median point of the lower border prominence, of the lower the jaw, projection at the symphysis beyond the ment i. vertical - Mental of the lower anterior border of the lower jaw-bone. It is highly characteristic and almost diagnostic of the human species. IMG:content-0478.png:[ocr errors] -Mental spines. Same as mental tubercles. - Mental suture, in entom., the impre ed line dividing the mentum from the gula. - Mental tubercles. Same as ge nial tubercles (which see, under genial2 ). mental3 (mental), n. An Oriental water-tight basket, having four ropes attached, by which two men raise water from a stream or cistern E. H. Knight. and discharge it into a trench for irrigation. mental mentality (men-tal'i-ti), n. [ The "Catholic World" laments the decay of mentality in Protestant England, finding the cause of its unhappine in the fact that the British magazine is so poor an affair as it is. ity . This is but a dangerous criterion of mental . The Nation , Aug. 3, 1871, p. 78. A certain amount of mentality or volition accompanied the result. Pop. Sci . Mo. , XIII. 450. Hudibras has the same hard mentality . Emerson, English Traits, xiv. mental i zati on (mental-i-zā'shon), n. [ talize + -ation .] Operation of the mind; mental action; manner of thinking. [Rare.] Previous to the establishment of complete delirium or delusions there may be traced deviations from healthy mental i zati on. E. C. Mann , Psychol. Med., p. 101.