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plantal, a. Now rare.|ˈplæntəl|
[f. plant n.1 + -al1, after animal.]
Pertaining or relating to a plant; vegetable; used by Henry More and other Platonists to translate Gr. ϕυτικός, applied to the lowest and simplest kind of life in living beings: see quots.
1642H. More Song of Soul ii. i. ii. xv, When to plantall life quick sense is ti'd. Ibid. ii. iii. i. ix, Three centres hath the soul; One plantall hight. 1656― Enthus. Tri. 3 A man differs in them little from a Plant, which therefore you may call the Vegetative or Plantall faculties of the Soul. 1659― Immort. Soul iii. i. 328 The same..made him surmise that the most degenerate Soules did at last sleep in the bodies of Trees, and grew up meerly into Plantal life. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. Pref. 10 A fourth atheistick form..concluded the world not to be an animal,..but onely one huge plant or vegetable, having an artificial, plantal, and plastick nature. 1736H. Brooke Univ. Beauty iii. 273 Wide o'er the bank the plantal reptile bends, Adown its stem the rooty fringe depends. 1789T. Taylor Proclus' Comm. II. 288 A plantal nature, and a power of acting on body, which is denominated ϕυτικοι, when it enters the lunar globe. 1816― in Pamphleteer VIII. 461 Wholly changed..into a plantal condition of being. 1889N. S. Shaler in Chautauquan Oct. 19 Some forms range through a great variety of physical and plantal conditions. |