adj. (colloquial).—Imaginative; whimsical; sentimental. Also NOTIONATE.
1691–2. Gentlemen’s Journal, 5 March. The lady tip’d (perhaps) out of her NOTIONAL love, was downright bent for a more substantial one.
1728. BAILEY, English Dictionary, s.v.
1881. W. D. HOWELLS, Dr. Breen’s Practice, ix. She ’s been a little NOTIONAL, she ’s had her head addled by women’s talk, and she ’s in a queer freak.
