Definition of Jumentous

1. Adjective. Smelling strongly like a beast of burden. "Jumentous urine"

Partainyms: Jument
Derivative terms: Jument

Definition of Jumentous

1. Adjective. Of, relating to, or smelling like horse urine. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jumentous

jumbojet
jumbos
jumbotron
jumbotrons
jumbrella
jumbrellas
jumbuck
jumbucks
jumby
jumby bead
jumby bean
jumby tree
jumelle
jumelles
jument
jumentous (current term)
jump-start
jump-started
jump-starting
jump-starts
jump about
jump around
jump at
jump at the chance
jump ball
jump blues
jump boot
jump boots
jump cut

Literary usage of Jumentous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Clinical Guide: Or Pocket-repertory for the Treatment of Acute and by Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr (1891)
"... jumentous urine, like buttermilk; sexual excitement, with frequent nightly erections and pollutions; swelling and con- ..."

2. Principles & Practice of Medicine by John Charles Peters, Frederick Greenwood Snelling (1863)
"Scanty, offensive, and jumentous urine is often passed by dropsical, ... jumentous urine is often of favorable import in chronic abdominal affections. ..."

3. On Diseases of the Skin by Erasmus Wilson (1857)
"In most cases, it more or less resembles the inflammatory type, it is red, (as in inflammatory measles,) acid, and sometimes jumentous, (turbid,) as in ..."

4. Animal Chemistry with Reference to the Physiology and Pathology of Man by Johann Franz Simon (1846)
"... acid, and sometimes jumentous (as in gastric measles), or deposits a mucous sediment during the course of the morning (as in catarrhal measles). ..."

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