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phosphoreal, a.|fɒsˈfɔəriːəl| Also 9 (less correctly) -ial. [f. (doubtful) L. phōsphore-us (f. phōsphor-us) + -al1.] Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling that of phosphorus. Also fig.
1745Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XLIII. 479 The kindling the phosphoreal Fire in them. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. IV. xlix. 331 Its smell is strongly phosphoreal or sulphureous. 1816W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XLI. 329 Phosphorial lustre beaming from their hair. 1891G. Meredith One of our Conq. xix, Delphica's phosphorial enthusiasm for our galaxy of British Poets. |