a. rare–0. [ad. late L. lectuāl-is (perh. a faulty reading), badly f. L. lectu-s bed, couch.] (See quots.)
1775. Ash, Lectual, confined in bed, proper to be confined in bed.
1823. Crabb, Technol. Dict. Lectual, an epithet for a distemper which requires a person to be confined to his bed.
