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gregal

gregal adjective: pertaining to, or like, a flock.

Adjective

gregal (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Pertaining to, or like, a flock.
    • Now the Wasp is a winged Insect, gregal or hearding round like a ring, long, having four wings […]1658 [a. 1604], Thomas Muffet, “The Theatre of Insects: Or, of lesser living creatures”, in The History of Four-footed Beasts, Serpents, and Insects […], page 921
    • The old Proverb is very true, Birds of a Feather, will flock together: And so will gregal Beasts too.1660, O. Cromwells Thankes to the Lord Generall, Faithfully presented by Hugh Peters In another Conference, page 2

Examples of gregal in a sentence

  • But for this gregal conformity there is, as I have said, a cause and an excuse.1873, William Starbuck Mayo, Never Again, page 86:
  • Whereas the turbate group can roughly be said to be irrational and unorganised, the gregal group may be described loosely as irrational yet organised.1960, T. T. Paterson, Glasgow Limited: A Case-Study in Industrial War and Peace, page 15:

Origin of gregal

Borrowed from Latin gregālis.

Questions about gregal

What does gregal mean?
Gregal means pertaining to, or like, a flock.
How do you use gregal in a sentence?
But for this gregal conformity there is, as I have said, a cause and an excuse.
What part of speech is gregal?
Gregal is an adjective.

Words near gregal in the dictionary

  1. Grefsen
  2. Greg
  3. Greg Greg
  4. Grega
  5. Gregadoo
  6. gregal
  7. gregale
  8. gregales
  9. gregarian
  10. gregarianism
  11. gregaric

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