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Meaning of MENT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \-ment\, [F. -ment, L. -mentum.]
    A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process;
    the result of an act or process; state or condition; as,
    aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment,
    piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging,
    imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of
    being amazed, astonishment.
    
  2. \Ment\,
    p. p. of {Menge}.
    
 
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