thingal

adj

thingal

adj

Etymology From thing + -al.

1

Rare Belonging or pertaining to a thing or things; real.

  • [...] we apply thingal subjective conceptions. Our perceptions have a negation in them, they have not Being enough; to know the fact we must study by appropriate means, we must lay aside all these thingal idols of the mind; [...]1856, James Hinton, Selections from manuscripts: Volume 2:
  • Indeed he possessed no true aesthetic feeling at all; there is probably not a single word in all that he wrote which indicates any sense of what he would probably call "thingal beauty".1884, George Croom Robertson, Mind Association, George Frederick Stout, Mind: Volume 9:
Related terms
thing, thingly

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