tantamount, tantamont

[Fr. tant (Lat. tantus )=so much, as much; Eng. amount.] Equivalent in value, force, signification, or effect. "Whenever the Liberals bring forward a motion regarded by all sides as tantamount to a vote of want of confidence." -London Daily Telegraph . *tăn-ta-mount'-ing-ly, adv . [TANTAMOUNT.] Equivalently; in effect. "Tantamountingly to give her the lie."- Fuller : Church Hist ., II. ii. 28. tăn-ti-tỹ, s. [QUANTITY.] tăn--stōme, s. [TANYSTOMA.] Any dipterous insect of the tribe Tanystoma (q. v.). The gadfly is a familiar example.