• Thingal

    Origin

    From thing + -al.

    Full definition of thingal

    Adjective

    thingal

    1. (rare) Belonging or pertaining to a thing or things; real.
      • 1856, James Hinton, Selections from manuscripts: Volume 2:... we apply thingal subjective conceptions. Our perceptions have a negation in them, they have not Being enough; to know the fact we must study by appropriate means, we must lay aside all these thingal idols of the mind; ...
      • 1884, George Croom Robertson, Mind Association, George Frederick Stout, Mind: Volume 9:Indeed he possessed no true aesthetic feeling at all; there is probably not a single word in all that he wrote which indicates any sense of what he would probably call "thingal beauty".

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