integrant, a. (n.)
(ˈɪntɪgrənt)
[ad. L. integrānt-em, pr. pple. of integrāre: see integrate v. Cf. F. intégrant (1690 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Of parts: Making up or contributing to make up a whole, constituent, component; essential to the completeness of the whole: = integral A. 1.
integrant parts, in F. parties intégrantes, is etymologically more correct than the usual integral parts.
| 1637 Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. iii. viii. 186 The Church consisteth of two integrant parts, viz. Pastors and Sheepe. 1651 Charleton Ephes. & Cimm. Matrons ii. (1668) 38 An Appendix, or rather an integrant part of his fellow. 1727 [see integral A. 1]. 1773 Horsley in Phil. Trans. LXIV. 246 Imagine the integrant particles of A to be equal in quantity of matter and bulk..to the integrant particles of B, severally. 1794 Burke Rep. Lords' Jrnls. Wks. 1842 II. 598 These judges..are no integrant and necessary part of that court. 1836–7 [see integral A. 2]. 1849 Kemble Saxons in Eng. II. ii. vi. 235 There is no reason to suppose that the ceorls did not form an integrant part of the shire⁓moot. 1875 H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 91 Iron constitutes a necessary integrant portion of the red blood-corpuscles. |
B. n. That which integrates; a component.
| 1824 Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 261 It is the differentia of immortality, of which the assimilative power of faith and love is the integrant, and the life in Christ the integration. 1827 Colebrooke Misc. Ess. (1837) I. 389 The aggregate and its integrants are utterly different. |