See Also: novercal(dictionary)

mensur (iou) and novercal (iou)


mensur (iou)



mensur noun. , -rs. E20.
[German, lit. 'measure'.]
Chiefly Hist. In Germany, a fencing duel between students fought with partially blunted weapons.

novercal (iou)



novercal adjective. literary. Now rare. E17.
[Latin novercalis, from noverca stepmother, from novus new: see -AL1.]
Characteristic of or resembling a stepmother, stepmotherly.