fontal
Americanadjective
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pertaining to or coming from a fountain or spring.
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pertaining to or being the source of something.
fontal concepts.
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of or relating to a font, as of baptism.
Etymology
Origin of fontal
From the Medieval Latin word fontālis, dating back to 1650–60. See font 1, -al 1
Example Sentences
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The fontal truths of natural Religion, and the book of Revelation, alike contributed to the flood; and it was long ere my Ark touched upon Ararat, and rested.
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
It is the reason only which has a sense by which ideas can be recognized, and from the fontal light of ideas only can a man draw intellectual power.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
It is in the most proper, that is, the fontal, sense of the term, generation.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He is the fontal Source, He says, of all illumination; He stands before the whole race, and claims to be 'the Master-Light of all our seeing.'
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
And thus we come back to the fontal source of all the mischief of our own Day.
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon
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