a. [f. prec. + -AL 1.] Of, or of the nature of, a phantom; spectral, immaterial, subjective.
1792. Lond. Chron., Sept. 25, 300/2. The lovers of the occult sciences,… apparitional stories, &c. will be gratified.
1824. Galt, Rothelan, III. 173. Such apparitional coincidences are, I believe, not uncommon.
1866. Liddon, Bampt. Lect., i. (1875), 25. That Christ’s body was real, not apparitional.
