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
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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
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
He speaks as the fontal source, not as the recipient channel, of healing.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren
Love stands at the head, and is the fontal source of all separate individualised duties.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren
But love me then and only, when you know Me for the channel of the rivers of God From deep ideal fontal heavens that flow.
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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