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Webster 1913 Edition


Membral

Mem′bral

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Adj.
(Anat.)
Relating to a member.

Definition 2024


membral

membral

English

Adjective

membral (not comparable)

  1. (now rare) Relating to a member, in various senses; especially, (anatomy, zoology) pertaining to a limb.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.12:
      This man speakes of an unnaturall ill-favourdnesse and membrall deformity, but we call ill-favourdnesse a kinde of unseemelinesse at the first sight, which chiefely lodgeth in the face, and by the colour worketh a dislike in us.