Meaning of jentacular | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or pertaining to breakfast; specifically, one taken early in the morning or immediately upon getting up.

archaic, formal

Examples

“I took a post-jentacular walk to settle my stomach.”

“[T]he conſumption of Tea and Coffee; a faſhionable vice, vvhich tends only to ſquandring avvay money, and miſpending the morning; ſince (as you once ingeniouſly expreſs'd it) nothing more can be expected from thoſe Jentacular Confabulations.”

“To valetudinarians and others the following method of making coffee for breakfast is earnestly recommended, as a most wholesome and pleasant jentacular beverage, first ordered by an able physician.”

“Do you ever by chance do such a saluberrimous thing[…], as to walk into town before breakfast? If you ever do, I should be most glad to see you either here or at Nº 6 Lower Belgrave St South, Eaton Square, at your choice. Here there be jentacular comforts in great abundance— […]”

“On Ickerson's part, with the help of "a few post-jentacular inhalations," as he in his colossal manner was pleased to phrase it, "from that fragrant weed which so propitiates clearness of thought, and tends to promote equanimity in action."”

“Nature is nature; ignore her if you will; so Grey, like a sensible man, went to work, con amore, at his jentacular meal.”

“Point out instances of want of simplicity and of directness in the following. Express the meaning simply and directly. […] The advent of the butler with a brace of footmen announced the arrival of the urn and the various jentacular appurtenances.”

“The Gentleman loved to hold that crackling rectangle [a newspaper] in front of his face (folded, of course, into courteous fourths), loved the slant of the jentacular sun, the slightly acrid odor of the newsprint, the snappy headlines: […]”

“Dressed in an asphodel green bombagette frock, loosefitting and lightweight to accomplish a jentacular ease, […]”

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