adventualadj.

1610 J. Boys Expos. Dominical Epist. & Gospels 12 The first Gospell on the first Dominical, according to the Churches account is Aduentual, a scripture describing Christ and his kingdome.

a1663 R. Sanderson Judgement conc. Submission to Usurpers (1678) 11 I do also daily use one other Collect;..as namely, the Collects Adventual, Quadragesimal, Paschal, or Pentecostal, for their proper seasons.

1852 J. G. Manley Ecclesiography i. ii. 13 He said, ‘Man, who made me a judge or divider over you?’—thus disclaiming, in his human and adventual capacity.., all secular jurisdiction.

1894 World's Congr. Relig. 1893 1138 The distinctive doctrines of adventual faith are set forth in the form of essays.

1959 Jrnl. Bible & Relig. 27 245/2 They look toward a Christian sense of human affairs in which both history and selfhood are grounded in God's grace and adventual sovereignty.

1989 Speculum 64 477 Hesbert examined the relationships among eight hundred manuscript antiphonaries using the responses for matins on the four Sundays of Advent (supplemented by those for the Adventual ember days).

1999 Wisconsin Mag. Hist. 83 1 Followers of William Miller in the adventual movement used such charts as visual teaching and preaching aids.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Adventual, Adventive, or Adventitious, that cometh by chance, besides the purpose, unlooked for.

1791 Monthly Rev. May 68 A tree..becomes of a particular form in consequence of its casual situation or other adventual occurrences; as lightning, earthquake, &c.

1798 Louisa Forrester III. xliii. 184 Fear of a refusal..may well be esteemed as an equivalent to any other adventual good they [sc. women of superior rank] have to boast of.