potional

Adjective

potional (not comparable)

1. (rare) Of or relating to potions.
   • To the question, ‘What [is] the person killed?’ is written the reply: / It must be a person in rerum natura. If a woman quick with child take a potion to kill it, and accordingly it is destroyed without being born alive, a great misprision, but no felony; but if born alive, and after dies of that...1988, John Keown, Abortion, Doctors and the Law: Some Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Abortion in England from 1803 to 1982 (Cambridge History of Medicine), Cambridge, Cambs: Cambridge University...
   • The hallmark of the archetypal love story of Tristan and Isolde has always been the magic potion which brings them together and binds them into a socially defiant love. […] But minimization if not negation of such potional power leads to dilution of the motif in the Tristan en prose and Malory’s...1991, Maureen Fries, “The Impotent Potion: On the Minimization of the Love Theme in the Tristan en prose and Malory’s Morte D’Arthur”, in Quondam et Futurus: A Journal of Arthurian Interpretations...