Obs. rare. [Cf. next.] An apparition; a spectre.
a. 1656. Ussher, Ann. (1658), Ep. to Rdr. [408]. Those things which I produce concerning Præsages, Spectralls, and Oracles. Ibid., 705. He expounded to him out of the doctrine of the Epicureans, what was to be thought concerning such spectrals.