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issuant

American  
[ish-oo-uhnt] / ˈɪʃ u ənt /

adjective

  1. Heraldry. (of a beast) represented with the body erect and only the forepart visible.

    a lion issuant.


issuant British  
/ ˈɪʃjʊənt /

adjective

  1. heraldry emerging or issuing

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of issuant

First recorded in 1600–10; issue + -ant

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"A chief, undulated, argent—thereon, waves of the sea; from which, a palm-tree issuant, between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a ruinous battery on the sinister; all proper."

From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by Harrison, James

On a chief, Nebulæ, ermine, one complete doctor, issuant, checkie, sustaining in his right hand a baton of the second.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John

The crest of the ancient family of De la Bere is ‘a ducal coronet or, therefrom issuant a plume of five ostrich feathers per pale argent and azure.’

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

P. 166: 'Servage est un subjection issuant de cy grand antiquite, que nul frank ceppe ne purra estre trouve par human remembrance.'

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

A fabulous eagle, always represented as issuant from flames.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

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