Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A segment or joint of the stem of the Crinoidea.
  • Same as columnar.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A disklike part of the stem of a crinoid
  • adjective columnar

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Examples

  • Could your columnal time not be better spent going after, say, Apple, or Obama, or maybe a thoughtful screed about the SOPA blackout and the future of Net protocols in mainstream economic bifurcations affecting needful stimuli of egalitarian legalities?

    Mark Morford: Oh My God, America, Please Do Not Eat This Mark Morford 2012

  • Could your columnal time not be better spent going after, say, Apple, or Obama, or maybe a thoughtful screed about the SOPA blackout and the future of Net protocols in mainstream economic bifurcations affecting needful stimuli of egalitarian legalities?

    Mark Morford: Oh My God, America, Please Do Not Eat This Mark Morford 2012

  • Could your columnal time not be better spent going after, say, Apple, or Obama, or maybe a thoughtful screed about the SOPA blackout and the future of Net protocols in mainstream economic bifurcations affecting needful stimuli of egalitarian legalities?

    Mark Morford: Oh My God, America, Please Do Not Eat This Mark Morford 2012

  • Could your columnal time not be better spent going after, say, Apple, or Obama, or maybe a thoughtful screed about the SOPA blackout and the future of Net protocols in mainstream economic bifurcations affecting needful stimuli of egalitarian legalities?

    Mark Morford: Oh My God, America, Please Do Not Eat This Mark Morford 2012

  • Before it is a wide expanse of sea, on each hand of which are immense rocks; and, at some distance in the sea, there are three columnal rocks rising to sharp points.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • Margins and inter-columnal spaces they found covered with interpolations; a long trailing line indicated the way here and the way there to the destination of the inserted passages.

    Balzac 2003

  • Margins and inter-columnal spaces they found covered with interpolations; a long trailing line indicated the way here and the way there to the destination of the inserted passages.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • Its vast columnal trunk seemed to loom and expand as one approached.

    The California Birthday Book Various

  • Margins and inter-columnal spaces they found covered with interpolations; a long trailing line indicated the way here and the way there to the destination of the inserted passages.

    Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

  • Before it is a wide expanse of sea, on each hand of which are immense rocks; and, at some distance in the sea, there are three columnal rocks rising to sharp points.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

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