a. rare. [ad. L. vīneālis, f. vīnea VINE sb.] Of or pertaining to vines or wine; living on vines; consisting of wine.
1659. H. More, Immort. Soul, III. xii. 454. These exhalations of the Vineyards must spread … from … the Canaries to England…. So that there will be an Hemisphere of vineall Atoms of an incredible extent.
1859. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Vinealis, applied by Mirbel to plants that grow spontaneously on the vines,… vineal.
1873. Hartford Daily Courant, 28 Aug., 1/7. We will do our utmost to perpetuate the reign of the alcoholic-king, and keep fresh and verdant the vineal crown of Bacchus.
1903. Daily Chron., 30 Oct., 9/5. To obtain a 50 per cent. drop on Italian vineal exports to that country.
