a. [f. ACCIPITER + -AL as if ad. L. accipitrālis.] Of the nature of a falcon or hawk; rapacious; keen-sighted.
1841. Carlyle, Miscell. (1857), IV. 245. Of temper most accipitral.
1881. Lowell, in Harper’s Mag., Jan., 271. That Hawthorne’s eyes were sometimes accipitral we can readily believe.
