a. rare. [f. as prec. + -AL.] = next.

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1849.  Rock, Ch. of Fathers, I. v. 495. John of Salisbury, in one of his letters to Alexander III, reminds that Pontiff of a belt,—very likely one of these vestimental ones,—which he had deigned to bestow upon him.

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1908.  Times, 25 Nov., 4/2. If they were going into vestimental matters, it would take too long.

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