Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a vision; seen in a vision; hence, not real.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a vision.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
vision
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Examples
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I now have a visional aid and can read the record in US v Larry W.Campbell Sacramento, cal court Cr S 03 – 483 WBS E D.cal
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The Radicals revolted, establishing a pro visional government after imprisoning municipal councils in Bellinzona and Lugano.
1882, May 20 2001
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It reflects a new visional mood, a more optimistic one, a more mature one, and a more propositional one.
Clinton And Central American Leaders Press Conference ITY National Archives 1997
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Gibson won - dered if this was going to be a success; he did not wish to throw too great a strain on their still somewhat pro - visional friendship, and if Jimmy saw too much of him the results might be disastrous.
The Sands of Mars Clarke, Arthur C. 1951
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Ryder is akin to Coleridge, too, for there is a direct visional analogy between "The Flying Dutchman" and the excessively pictorial stanzas of "The Ancient Mariner."
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley
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And for the same reason he has lost receptibility to intermediate vibrations in the COLOR spectrum, which has clouded or stultified his visional faculties.
The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation J. L. Kennon
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Tennyson supplied one in the visional passages in the Princess.
The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922
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And for the same reason he has lost receptibility to intermediate vibrations in the color spectrum, which has clouded or stultified his visional faculties.
The Planet Mars And Its Inhabitants: A Psychic Revelation a Martian 1920
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The real length of time covered by the six visional days is not determined by Scripture; even the sequence of certain details may be different in nature from that in the vision, so that this theory does not interfere with the data of geology, while it safeguards the veracity of the inspired record.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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These revelations are got through dreams of sleep or in waking visions of the mind, by voices without visional appearance or by actual manifestations of the Holy Presence before the eye.
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