a. and sb. [f. ARMORY + -AL. Cf. mod.Fr. armorial.]

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  A.  adj. Pertaining to heraldic arms.

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1576.  Thynne, Burghley’s Crest, 295. An olde armoriall booke.

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1683.  Brit. Spec., 179. The Soveraign Ensigns Armorial of the King of Great Britain.

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1803.  Southey, Sel. Lett. (1856), I. 224. I often found my armorial vocabulary scant.

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1857.  Buckle, Civiliz., I. ix. 562. In the twelfth century armorial bearings were invented.

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  B.  sb. A book containing coats of arms.

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1753.  Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., In this sense we meet with the French Armorial, the Spanish Armorial.

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c. 1800.  (title) An Armorial of the Extinct and Dormant Peerage of England.

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