plantal

See also: plántál

English

Etymology

From plant +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈplɑːntəl/, /ˈplæntəl/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈplæntəl/

Adjective

plantal (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Belonging to plants.
   • 1659, Henry More, Immortality of the Soul:

     The most degenerate souls did at last sleep in the bodies of trees, and grew up merely into plantal life.

   • 1807, Andrónico de Rodas, The paraphrase of an anonymous Greek writer, page 25:

     To live indeed is common also to plants; but we now investigate the peculiar work of man, so that the consideration about the plantal life must be dismissed.

   • 1871, George Chaplin Child, The great architect, page 263:

     This sudden glimpse of the richness of southern vegetation is very delightful to a wanderer from Northern Europe who sees it for the first time, and it forms one of the most striking transitions in the aspect of plantal life […]

2. (obsolete) Of the nature of implanting or uniting.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Appendix, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 151:

     "That the Plantal faculty of the Soul, whereby she is unitable to this terrestrial Body, is not arbitrarious, but fatal or natural; which union cannot be dissolved unless the bond of Life be loosened, and that vital congruity (which is in the Body, and does necessarily hold the Soul there) be either for a time hindred or utterly destroy'd."

References

• “plantal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Laplant