symmetral
English edit
Etymology edit
Partly from Latin symmetros and partly from Ancient Greek σύμμετρος (súmmetros), + -al.[1]
Adjective edit
symmetral (comparative more symmetral, superlative most symmetral)
- (obsolete) commensurable; symmetrical
- 1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness:
- It was both the doctrine of the apostles, and the practice of the church, while it was symmetral, to obey the magistrate.
References edit
- ^ “symmetral, adj.”, in OED Online
[1], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 2023-09-19.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “symmetral”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)