staminal

English edit

staminal (not comparable)

staminal (not comparable)

(rare) Pertaining to or promoting stamina or endurance.
- 1896 November 2/3, Daily News 3 (quoted in the New English Dictionary):
  The supplies […] consisting chiefly of large quantities of provisions, vegetables, staminal foods, and pemmicans, will be sold […] on Monday.
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to the stamina or basic structure or constitution of a thing.
- 1798, J. Barry, Let. Dilettanti Soc., page 32:
  The absurdity […] of magnifying its accidental casual connexion with patronage, into something staminal and essential to its growth and perfection.
- 1805, Southey, in Robberds' Mem. W. Taylor II, page 77:
  I know myself to be free from these staminal defects.
- 1845, J. Martineau, Misc., published 1852, page 92:
  an exposition of his staminal ideas of this subject

“staminal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
“staminal”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

staminal (feminine staminale, masculine plural staminaux, feminine plural staminales)

staminal m or n (feminine singular staminală, masculine plural staminali, feminine and neuter plural staminale)

Declension of staminal