gregal

G2R1E1G2A1L1

adjective

Pertaining to, or like, a flock.

OriginLatin gregālis →
Scrabble 8
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Meanings

adjectivegregal (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerarePertaining to, or like, a flock.

    But for this gregal conformity there is, as I have said, a cause and an excuse.

    1873, William Starbuck Mayo, Never Again, page 86
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    Now the Wasp is a winged Insect, gregal or hearding round like a ring, long, having four wings […]

    1658 [a. 1604], Thomas Muffet, “The Theatre of Insects: Or, of lesser living creatures”, in The History of Four-footed Beasts, Serpents, and Insects […], page 921

    The old Proverb is very true, Birds of a Feather, will flock together: And so will gregal Beasts too.

    1660, O. Cromwells Thankes to the Lord Generall, Faithfully presented by Hugh Peters In another Conference, page 2

    Whereas the turbate group can roughly be said to be irrational and unorganised, the gregal group may be described loosely as irrational yet organised.

    1960, T. T. Paterson, Glasgow Limited: A Case-Study in Industrial War and Peace, page 15

Origin

  1. Latingregālis
  2. Englishgregal

Borrowed from Latin gregālis.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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