† plantaladj.

Forms: 1600s plantall, 1600s–1800s plantal.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plant n.¹, -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < plant n.¹ + -al suffix¹, after animal adj. N.E.D.(1907) gives the pronunciation as (plæ·ntăl) /ˈplæntəl/.

Obsolete.

Of or relating to a plant; vegetable, vegetative; (Philosophy) belonging to the lowest and simplest kind of life.

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vegetablea1500

vegetive1526

vegetant?1553

plantlike1567

vegetable1582

vegetal1596

plantal1642

vegetative1662

veg1765

vegetably1834

phytoid1853

phytiform1890

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. F3^v When to plantall life quick sense is ti'd.

1656 H. More Enthusiasmus Triumphatus 3 A man differs in them little from a Plant, which therefore you may call the Vegetative or Plantall faculties of the Soul.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Pref. sig. **^v A Fourth Atheistick Form..concluded the whole World, not to be an Animal,..but onely One Huge Plant or Vegetable, having an Artificial, Plantal, and Plastick Nature.

1736 H. Brooke Universal Beauty iii. 273 Wide o'er the bank the plantal reptile bends, Adown its stem the rooty fringe depends.

a1763 J. Byrom Misc. Poems (1773) I. 285 Mean while I conclude That St. John's [locust] was the plantal, not animal Food.

1789 T. Taylor Hist. Restoration Platonic Theol. in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. II. 288 A plantal nature, and a power of acting on body, which is denominated ϕυτικοι, when it enters the lunar globe.

1816 T. Taylor in Pamphleteer 8 461 Wholly changed..into a plantal condition of being.

1862 Ladies Repository Jan. 51/1 The herbs, and flowers, and trees, of the plantal realm, and the million tribes of air, and earth, and sea, belonging to the animal dominion, have changed many a thousand times since the days of Noah.

1889 N. S. Shaler in Chautauquan Oct. 19 Some forms range through a great variety of physical and plantal conditions.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	plantal
释义	† plantaladj. Forms: 1600s plantall, 1600s–1800s plantal. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plant n.¹, -al suffix¹. Etymology: < plant n.¹ + -al suffix¹, after animal adj. N.E.D.(1907) gives the pronunciation as (plæ·ntăl) /ˈplæntəl/. Obsolete. Of or relating to a plant; vegetable, vegetative; (Philosophy) belonging to the lowest and simplest kind of life. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > [adjective] vegetablea1500 vegetive1526 vegetant?1553 plantlike1567 vegetable1582 vegetal1596 plantal1642 vegetative1662 veg1765 vegetably1834 phytoid1853 phytiform1890 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. F3^v When to plantall life quick sense is ti'd. 1656 H. More Enthusiasmus Triumphatus 3 A man differs in them little from a Plant, which therefore you may call the Vegetative or Plantall faculties of the Soul. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Pref. sig. *^v A Fourth Atheistick Form..concluded the whole World, not to be an Animal,..but onely One Huge Plant or Vegetable, having an Artificial, Plantal, and Plastick Nature. 1736 H. Brooke Universal Beauty* iii. 273 Wide o'er the bank the plantal reptile bends, Adown its stem the rooty fringe depends. a1763 J. Byrom Misc. Poems (1773) I. 285 Mean while I conclude That St. John's [locust] was the plantal, not animal Food. 1789 T. Taylor Hist. Restoration Platonic Theol. in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. II. 288 A plantal nature, and a power of acting on body, which is denominated ϕυτικοι, when it enters the lunar globe. 1816 T. Taylor in Pamphleteer 8 461 Wholly changed..into a plantal condition of being. 1862 Ladies Repository Jan. 51/1 The herbs, and flowers, and trees, of the plantal realm, and the million tribes of air, and earth, and sea, belonging to the animal dominion, have changed many a thousand times since the days of Noah. 1889 N. S. Shaler in Chautauquan Oct. 19 Some forms range through a great variety of physical and plantal conditions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1642
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