obitual, a. and n. rare.
(əʊˈbɪtjʊəl)
[f. L. obitu-s obit + -al1: cf. habitual.]
A. adj. = obital A. (In quot. 1887 in reference to an obituary notice.)
| 1706 Phillips, Obituary, a Calendar, or Register-Book, in which the Friers in a Monastery enter'd the Obits, or Obitual Days of their Founders and Benefactors. 1887 Harper's Mag. Dec. 146/1 The Bassoon [a newspaper] was so tearfully obitual. 1893 Nation (N.Y.) 30 Nov. 406/3 Obitual days constitute an important, distinctive, and ever recurrent feature in the proceedings of our national Legislature. |
B. n. = obital B, obituary A. 1.
| 1812 J. Brady Clav. Calend. (1815) 202 The avaricious priests registered in their Obituals those persons who purchased such remembrance. |