a. [f. FOREST sb. + -AL.] Of or pertaining to a forest.
1827. Hallam, Const. Hist. (1876), II. viii. 10. The earl of Holland held a court almost every year, as chief-justice in eyre, for the recovery of the king’s forestal rights, which made great havoc with private property.
1859–62. Lewin, Invas. Brit., 51. It flows through a low, marshy ground, where we shall look in vain for any strong military fastness, of a forestal character, such as the Britons are said to have occupied.
1878. Fraser’s Mag., XVIII. Sept., 276/2. These Asiatic provinces teem with forestal riches.
