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saturnal, a. and n.|səˈtɜːnəl|
[ad. L. Sāturnālis, f. Sāturn-us Saturn: see -al1.]
†A. adj. Pertaining to Saturn or his astrological influence. Obs.
1591Greene Farew. Folly Wks. (Grosart) IX. 324 Yet remaines there in the minde certain Scyntillulæ voluptatis, which confirmed by a saturnall impression, were harder to root out than were they newly sprong vp in youth. 1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. 96 They that are to gather a Saturnall, Martiall, or Joviall Hearb must look towards the East, or South. 1666J. Smith Old Age 109 He that shall call the..poor bloud returning home in the Veins, Earthly, Saturnal, Gross, shall make no Schisme..in the..doctrine of Circulation. 1683Tryon Way to Health 649 Are not the Saturnal and Martial Strings and Notes as material and useful as the Jovial and Venerial?
B. n.
†1. ? One born under the influence of Saturn. Obs.
1605Timme Quersit. i. 47 There are starres which haue their most colde and moyst spirites, as the Saturnalls and Lunaries.
2. pl. [a. F. saturnales fem. pl. (14th c. saturneles in Littré).]
†a. = Saturnalia 1.
b. = Saturnalia 2.
1487Caxton Bk. Gd. Manners i. xv. (W. de W. c 1515) E ij, As enseyg[n]eth Macrobe in his boke of Saturnelles. [1513Douglas æneis i. Prol. 68 Of the writis Macrobius..In his grete volume clepit Saturnail.] 1619B. Jonson Masque, Pleas. Reconc. to Virt. (init.), I know it is now such a time as the Saturnalls for all the World. 1647A. Ross Mystag. Poet. xi. (1675) 286 At certain Feasts of Minerva in March, the Maids were wont to be served by their Mistresses, as in the Saturnals the Men-servants by their Masters. 1654Ogilby Virg. Georg. i. (1684) 47 note, Macrobius in the first of his Saturnals, c. 21. 1705Tate, etc., tr. Cowley's Hist. Plants (1795) 191 But yet these wild Saturnals shall not last. 1864Athenæum 5 Mar. 345/3 To compose that swaggering song, ‘They shall not have our Rhine,’ for these saturnals. |