a. Obs. [f. L. luctu-s mourning + -AL.] Mournful, sorrowful.
1613–8. Daniel, Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626), 17. [He] found meanes to maintaine publique manners, without that luctuall remedy of bloud.
1646. Buck, Rich. III., II. 41. The turbulent and luctuall times, which were towards the end … of his … Raigne.
1655. H. Vaughan, Silex Scint., II. Rainbow (1858), 173. Thy light as luctual and stained with woes I’ll judge.
