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fontal, a. and n.|ˈfɒntəl|
[ad. med.L. fontālis, f. font-, fons fount, font.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to a fountain or spring; coming as from a spring. rare.
1656–81in Blount Glossogr. a1711Ken Hymn. Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 69 O Jesu..Stream from thy fontal Fulness a small Rill, My soul to purify..and fill. 1753Chambers Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Alga, The alga's are some marine..others fontal, growing in springs. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius iii. 58 She made a libation..with fontal water. 1855Bailey Mystic 85 Within whose veins condensed the essential dew Flows fontal.
2. Pertaining to the source of anything; that is the source of other things; original, primary.
1677Gale Crt. Gentiles I. iv. 272 The fontall Unitie and infinite Abyss of his own Essence. a1711Ken Hymn. Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 135 When Godhead Fontal and Deriv'd, co-breath. 1793T. Taylor Orat. Julian 30 The fontal sun, then, subsists in Jupiter the perfect artificer of the world. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 95 The fontal truths of natural religion. 1858E. Caswall Masque of Mary 16 Hail, Mother of all ages! fontal source of humankind. 1883A. Roberts O.T. Revision vii. 139 Whence was that fontal text derived?
3. Pertaining to the font, baptismal.
1797Coleridge Poems, Christen. Friend's Child i, This day among the faithful placed, And fed with fontal manna. 1846Keble Lyra Innoc. (ed. 3) 6 The fontal wave To each apart the glory gave, Washing us clean.
B. n.
†1. Source, ‘well-spring’ (fig.). Obs.
a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 379 Love's the propensive Fontal of our Wills.
2. Her. (See quot. 1828–40).
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. xvi. 365 A Sea Nymph..resting her Arm upon a Water-pot or Fontall, from whence issues water all proper. 1828–40Berry Encycl. Her. I. s.v., The gods of fountains and rivers and water nymphs are generally depicted with a water-pot from which flows the river they represent, which is termed a fontal.
Hence ˈfontally adv.
a1617Bayne Diocesans Tryall (1621) 69 It presupposeth the power of jurisdiction to be given originally and fontally to one person of the Church. |