natalitial
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin natalitius, from natalis. See natal.
Adjective[edit]
natalitial (not comparable)
- (rare) Pertaining to a birthday.
- 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
- Thus we read in the life of Virgil, and how far his Natalitial Poplar had out-strip'd the rest of its Contemporaries.
- 1845, Charles Knight, The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 14, page 7:
- […] the exceeding great stone upon Hamdon-hill in Somersetshire, so famous for the quarry, which is within a mile of the parish of Odcombe, my dear natalitial place.