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tribual, a.|ˈtrɪbjuːəl|
[f. L. tribu-s tribe + -al1: cf. gradu-al, manu-al. (L. had in this sense tribuārius.)]
Of, belonging or pertaining to a tribe; tribal.
1650Fuller Pisgah ii. x. 207 The first tribuall defection to idolatry Dan was guilty of. a1661― Worthies, Leicester. (1662) ii. 126 The Tribual Lisping of the Ephramites. 1817G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. (1845) I. 229 We are apt to fancy, that this extraordinary people have no tribual distinctions among themselves. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 268 It would..have been a much greater improvement..to have employed hydrops as a generic, instead of hydropes as a tribual or family name. 1881Bentham in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 287 Observations on the most important tribual and subtribual characters.
Hence ˈtribually adv., by tribes, tribally.
1817G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. (1845) II. 181 Here, apparently, they were first tribually planted, when Nimrod and his baffled Cuthim migrated from Babel to Ashur. |