a. Also burgal. [f. BURGH + -AL. Of or pertaining to a burgh, borough, or municipal corporation; † burghal division, a portion (of land) of size suitable for a burgage tenement; cf. BOROUGH 4.
1591. Charter of Jas. VI., in A. McKay, Hist. Kilmarnock (1864), 300. To assign his lands … in whole or in part, into burghal divisions, for buildings or houses to be erected on the same.
1839. W. Chambers, Tour Holland, 33/1. These times of Amsterdam’s burgal glory.
1847. National Cycl., 691. The burgh warrant is a burghal or civic proceeding directed against foreign debtors.
1864. Burton, Scot Abr., II. 282. That old burghal community … the Hanse Towns.
