Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to inherited nature and ordinary conditions: humorously distinguished from transcendental.

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Examples

  • "Father, it would not require much stretch of imagination to believe that, by some descendental metempsychosis, I had become an exhumed member of the sacred gnomides, torn ruthlessly from my sisterhood in Cerro do Frio or the cold dreary caverns of the Agathyrsi."

    Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864

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