menstruate

[Lat. menstruatus, pa. par. of menstruo.] Menstruous. (MENS TRUANT.] 1. Zool .: A family of tailed amphibians, sub-order Ichthyoidea, group Doretremata. It contains the genera Menopoma (q. v.) and Sieboldia (Crypto-men-stru-āte, v. i. [MENSTRUATE, a.] To disbranch us). IMG:content-1102.png:[blocks in formation] Law : (Lit., from board and bed.) A phrase applied to a kind of divorce effected by the sentence of an ecclesiastical court, by which the parties were separated, but the marriage relation itself was not di olved. It is now superseded by a judicial separation. [BED, 8., II. 1; SEPARATION.]