Now rare or Obs. [f. SUPPLY v.1 + -AL.] The act of supplying.
1752. Warburton, Princ. Nat. & Rev. Relig., iv. Wks. 1788, V. 58. For the supplial of our imaginary … wants. Ibid. (a. 1779), Div. Legat., IV. v. Wks. 1788, II. 560. To form the principal members of his demonstration with an unornamented brevity, and leave the supplial of the small connecting parts to his reader’s sagacity.
1801. Mason, Suppl. Johnson’s Dict., Pref. p. iii. The supplial of omissions.
1819. G. S. Faber, Dispensations (1823), I. 276. The … supplial of all the wants of life.
b. A thing that supplies the place of another.
1837. C. Richardson, Dict., Pref. iii. It may be deemed a supplial of many books.
