a. Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Attached to, found in or upon, or frequenting, woods or trees; as, arboreal animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Woodpeckers are eminently arboreal. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. L. arealis, fr. area. ] Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. borealis: cf. F. boréal. See Boreas. ] 1. Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast. [ 1913 Webster ]

So from their own clear north in radiant streams,
Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biogeography) Designating or pertaining to a terrestrial division consisting of the northern and mountainous parts of both the Old and the New World; -- equivalent to the Holarctic region exclusive of the Transition, Sonoran, and corresponding areas. The term is used by American authors and applied by them chiefly to the Nearctic subregion. The Boreal region includes approximately all of North and Central America in which the mean temperature of the hottest season does not exceed 18° C. (= 64.4° F.). Its subdivisions are the Arctic zone and
Boreal zone, the latter including the area between the Arctic and Transition zones. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. Cerealis pert. to Ceres, and hence, to agriculture. See Ceres. ] Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L. See Cereal. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. (Antiq.) Public festivals in honor of Ceres. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cereals. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. corporeus, fr. corpus body. ] Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial. [ 1913 Webster ]

His omnipotence
That to corporeal substance could add
Speed almost spiritual. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporeal property, such as may be seen and handled (as opposed to incorporeal, which can not be seen or handled, and exists only in contemplation). Mozley & W.

Syn. -- Corporal; bodily. See Corporal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Materialism. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.: pl. Corporealities The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the body; in a bodily form or manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Corporeality; corporeity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To divest of reality; to make uncertain. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. empyrius, empyreus, fiery, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, in fire, fiery; &unr_; in + &unr_; fire. See In, and Fire. ] Formed of pure fire or light; refined beyond aërial substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Empyreal air, oxygen gas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Empyrean. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vast chain of being, which from God began,
Natures ethereal, human, angel, man. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ethereal oil. (Chem.) See Essential oil, under Essential. --
Ethereal oil of wine (Chem.), a heavy, yellow, oily liquid consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl sulphate. It is the oily residuum left after etherification. Called also heavy oil of wine (distinguished from oil of wine, or œnanthic ether). --
Ethereal salt (Chem.), a salt of some organic radical as a base; an ester. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ethereality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being ethereal; etherealness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An ethereal or spiritlike state. J. H. Stirling. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To render ethereal or spiritlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

Etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the other world. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an ethereal manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ethereality. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. floréal, fr. L. flos, floris, flower. ] The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendémiare. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Forealleged p. pr. & vb. n. Forealleging ] To allege or cite before. Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. funereus, fr. fentus a funeral. ] Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn; as, at a funereal pace. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow.

-- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Pref. in- not + corporeal: cf. L. incorporeus. Cf. Incorporal. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not consisting of matter; immaterial. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms
Reduced their shapes immense. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Existing only in contemplation of law; not capable of actual visible seizin or possession; not being an object of sense; intangible; -- opposed to corporeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Incorporeal hereditament. See under Hereditament.

Syn. -- Immaterial; unsubstantial; bodiless; spiritual. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Existence without a body or material form; immateriality. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in incorporealism. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being incorporeal or bodiless; immateriality; incorporealism. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an incorporeal manner. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Between or among constellations or stars; interstellar. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖pos>n. [ NL. Linnaeus Linnæan + L. borealis northern. ] (Bot.) The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the lore; -- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. marmoreus, fr. marmor marble: cf. F. marmoréen. See Marble. ] Pertaining to, or resembling, marble; made of marble. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Nectareous. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a nectary. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not arboreal; not living in trees; -- of animals. Opposite of arboreal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Omni- + corporeal. ] Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance. [ R. ] Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of a purple color; purple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp., fr. real royal, L. regalis. See Regal, and cf. Ree a coin. ] A former small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A
real of plate (coin) varied in value according to the time of its coinage, from 121/2 down to 10 cents, or from 61/2 to 5 pence sterling. The
real vellon, or money of account, was nearly equal to five cents, or 21/2 pence sterling. In 1871 the coinage of Spain was assimilated to that of the Latin Union, of which the franc is the unit. The peseta was introduced in 1868, and continued as the official currency of Spain (splitting temporarily into Nationalist and Republican pesetas during the civil war of the 1930's) until 2002. In 2002, the euro became the official currency of Spain and most other nations of the European Union. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

a. Royal; regal; kingly. [ Obs. ] “The blood real of Thebes.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. realis, fr. L. res, rei, a thing: cf. F. réel. Cf. Rebus. ] 1. Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whereat I waked, and found
Before mine eyes all real, as the dream
Had lively shadowed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose perfection far excelled
Hers in all real dignity. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Relating to things, not to persons. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Many are perfect in men's humors that are not greatly capable of the real part of business. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Alg.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chattels real (Law), such chattels as are annexed to, or savor of, the realty, as terms for years of land. See Chattel. --
Real action (Law), an action for the recovery of real property. --
Real assets (Law), lands or real estate in the hands of the heir, chargeable with the debts of the ancestor. --
Real composition (Eccl. Law), an agreement made between the owner of lands and the parson or vicar, with consent of the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from payment of tithes, in consequence of other land or recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof. Blackstone. --
Real estate or
Real property, lands, tenements, and hereditaments; freehold interests in landed property; property in houses and land. Kent. Burrill. --
Real presence (R. C. Ch.), the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation. In other churches there is a belief in a form of real presence, not however in the sense of transubstantiation. --
Real servitude, called also
Predial servitude (Civil Law), a burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor. Erskine. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Actual; true; genuine; authentic. -- Real, Actual. Real represents a thing to be a substantive existence; as, a real, not imaginary, occurrence. Actual refers to it as acted or performed; and, hence, when we wish to prove a thing real, we often say, “It actually exists, ” “It has actually been done.” Thus its reality is shown by its actuality. Actual, from this reference to being acted, has recently received a new signification, namely, present; as, the actual posture of affairs; since what is now in action, or going on, has, of course, a present existence. An actual fact; a real sentiment. [ 1913 Webster ] For he that but conceives a crime in thought,
Contracts the danger of an actual fault. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] Our simple ideas are all real; all agree to the reality of things. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A realist. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. réalgar, Sp. rejalgar, Ar. rahj al ghār powder of the mine. ] (Min.) Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To align anew or better; as, realign the wheels of my car; realign my jaw. Usually used without the hyphen. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. réalisme. ] 1. (Philos.) (a) As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle). (b) As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Art & Lit.) Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. the practise of assessing facts and the probabilities of the consequences of actions in an objective manner; avoidance of unrealistic or impractical beliefs or efforts. Contrasted to idealism, self-deception, overoptimism, overimaginativeness, or visionariness. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. réaliste. ] 1. (Philos.) One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Art. & Lit.) An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. a person who avoids unrealistic or impractical beliefs or efforts. Contrasted to idealist or visionary. [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination. [ 1913 Webster ]