Meanings
comparative more symmetral · superlative most symmetral
- obsoletecommensurable; symmetrical
It was both the doctrine of the apostles, and the practice of the church, while it was symmetral, to obey the magistrate.
1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness
Origin
- Ancient Greekσύμμετρος
- Latinsymmetros
- Englishsymmetral
Partly from Latin symmetros and partly from Ancient Greek σύμμετρος (súmmetros), + -al.
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