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supplial Now rare or Obs.|səˈplaɪəl|
[f. supply v.1 + -al1.]
The act of supplying.
1752Warburton Princ. Nat. & Rev. Relig. iv. Wks. 1788 V. 58 For the supplial of our imaginary..wants. a1779― Div. Legat. iv. v. Wks. 1788 II. 560 To form the principal members of his demonstration with an unornamented brevity, and leave the supplial of the small connecting parts to his reader's sagacity. 1801Mason Suppl. Johnson's Dict. Pref. p. iii, The supplial of omissions. 1819G. S. Faber Dispensations (1823) I. 276 The..supplial of all the wants of life.
b. A thing that supplies the place of another.
1837C. Richardson Dict. Pref. iii, It may be deemed a supplial of many books. |