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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to baths or bathing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to a bath: as, “balneal heat,”

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to baths or to bathing

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to a bath.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin balneum, bath; see bagnio. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “In one swift flurry of motion she turns to our daughter and takes both of Miranda’s hands in hers, giggling, and mother and daughter start to spin, jumping and dancing amidst balneal waters of hope.”

    Simon & Schuster: Water Witches

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  • knitandpurl "Sitting on a broad, flat stone, that he had chosen with care, Etienne was following with listless eye the reduced activity of his balneal colleagues."
    Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright, p 169 of the NYRB paperback Nov 7, 2010

  • viridian
    –adj.
    of or pertaining to baths or bathing. Nov 12, 2007

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‘balneal’ has been looked up 742 times, added to 4 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 9.