a. [f. TYPE sb.1 + -AL.]

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  1.  Of the nature of, serving as, or answering to a type, pattern, or specimen; representative; typical.

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1853.  Brimley, Ess. My Novel, 277. True typal varieties of English life.

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1861.  Beresf. Hope, Eng. Cathedr. 19th C., i. 18. The ‘literate’ may become the typal incumbent of England, and … the English clergyman—gentleman and scholar as well as Christian—become a thing of the past.

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1882.  Dorling in Sunday Mag., 196. A charming glimpse of a typal Welsh preacher.

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  2.  Pertaining or relating to a type or symbol; symbolic; emblematic.

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1893.  E. Dingle (title), The typal use of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet in the Psalms &c.

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  3.  Of or pertaining to printing type; typographical.

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1882.  J. Parker, Apost. Life, I. 62. There are palpitations which cannot be reported, and tones which have no typal representation.

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