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▪ I. passional, n.|ˈpæʃənəl|
(Also in L. form.)
[ad. med.L. passiōnāle, neuter of passiōnālis (see next) of or pertaining to passion, to the Passion, used as n. = liber passionalis (Du Cange).]
1. A book containing accounts of the sufferings of saints and martyrs, for reading on their festival days.
1650G. Langbaine in Ussher's Lett. (1686) 552 A good old Book, which was sometime the Passional of the Monastery of Ramesey. 1849[see passionary]. 1882Ch. Q. Rev. 276 Missals, Troparies, Passionals, Hymnaries, Collectaria, and Benedictionals. 1887Chicago Advance 27 Oct. 674, 53d chap. [of Isaiah] known since the days of Polycarp..as the Golden Passional. 1901A. C. Welch Anselm & his Wk. v. 89 The Archbishop..ordered Osbern..to have a passionale composed to his memory.
†b. fig. A story of suffering or woe. Obs. rare.
a1500Colkelbie Sow Prohem. 19 Quhat is the warld without plesance or play Bot passionale?
2. ‘A manuscript of the four Gospels, upon which the kings of England, from Henry I. to Edward VI., took the coronation oath’ (Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 1872).
▪ II. passional, a.|ˈpæʃənəl|
[ad. late L. passiōnāl-is (Tertullian), f. passiōn-em passion: see -al1. Cf. OF. passionnel, -al, inspired by passion, causing suffering.]
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; inspired by or imbued with passion; characterized by passion.
1700J. Wodrow in R. Wodrow Life (1828) 35 This is rational, the other passional. 1845O. A. Brownson Wks. VI. 37 The Fourierists..place..the passional nature..at the summit of the psychical hierarchy. 1857Mayne Reid War-Trail xiv, Three elements or classes of feeling: the moral, the intellectual, and what I may term the passional. 1867F. Parkman Jesuits N. Amer. xiv. (1875) 175 A mystic of the intense and passional school. |