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gremial

gremial adjective: of or pertaining to the lap.

Adjective

gremial (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the lap.

Noun

gremial (plural gremials)

  1. A decorated cloth placed on a bishop's lap whilst celebrating mass or ordaining priests.
  2. (obsolete) A bosom friend.
    • These Friars living in these convents were capable of degrees, and kept their Acts, as other University-men. Yet were they gremials and not gremials, who sometimes would so stand on the tiptoes of their privileges, that they endeavoured to be higher than other students: so that oftentimes they and...1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge

gremial meaning in Urdu

gremial in Urdu

نزدیکی, ساکن

Forms of gremial

pluralgremials

Origin of gremial

Borrowed from Latin gremiālis.

Words formed from gremial

Questions about gremial

What does gremial mean?
Gremial means of or pertaining to the lap.
What is gremial in Urdu?
Gremial in Urdu is نزدیکی, ساکن. See Gremial meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is gremial?
Gremial can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near gremial in the dictionary

  1. Grellas
  2. Grelling
  3. Grelling-Nelson paradox
  4. Grells
  5. grem
  6. gremial
  7. gremials
  8. Gremillion
  9. Gremillions
  10. GREML
  11. gremlin

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