[f. as prec. + -AL.]
† 1. Bearing a trident. Obs. rare.
1635. Quarles, Embl., I. ii. iv. The white-mouth’d Water now usurpes the Shore, And scornes the pow’r of her trydentall Guide.
2. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a trident; three-pronged, trifurcate.
1648. Gage, West Ind., vii. 20. Catching one with a tridentall iron Fork.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, V. 458. The bold Son of Amphytrion with tridental shaft Her bosom pierced.
1843. R. H. Horne, Orion, III. iii. 166. Now had Poseidon with tridental spear Torn up the smitten sea.
1892. Graphic, 28 May, 637/2. These picturesque tridental bays have contributed backgrounds to many of the artist’s pictures.
