Meanings
- not comparablerareRelating to powder.
Pulveral purifications can only be uſed where pure water is wanting.
1788, [Ignace] De M[ouradja] d’Ohsson, anonymous translator, Oriental Antiquities, and General View of the Othoman Customs, Laws, and Ceremonies: […], Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [T]he Select Committee and Grand Lodge of Enquiry, page 3053 more examples
They are given in divers formes, either liquid, which muſt be attracted by the noſe, or ſolid, which muſt be ingeſted into the noſtrills, or pulverall, which muſt be ſnuffed up.
1657, Joannes Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […], London: […] Jo[hn] Streater and Ja[mes] Cottrel, book V ([…]), page 178The appearance and design of the stones would suggest that in turning, shaping, and polishing the architects used pulveral processes of workmanship.
1921 April 17, L. A. W. Brook, “Correspondence: Stone Circles in Gambia”, in The Geographical Journal, volume LVIII, number 1, London: Royal Geographical Society, published July 1921, page 76S’il meurt avant qu’on soit fixé sur son sexe on ne le lavera pas⁵. Mais on se contentera d’une simple lustration pulvérale (tayamam).
1985, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, translated by Alan Sheridan, “The frontier of the sexes”, in Sexuality in Islam, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN, part I (The Islamic view of sexuality), page 42Synonyms: powdery
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveRelating to powder.
Origin
From Latin pulvis + -al. By surface analysis, pulver + -al.
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