† ˈorganal, a. Obs. rare.
Also 6 -onall.
[a. OF. organal, orguenal, f. L. organ-um + -al1.]
1. organal vein [OF. veine organal]: the ‘vital’ or jugular vein.
| 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccclxxiv. 621 The speare heed dyd entre into his throte, and dyd cutte asonder the orgonall vayne. |
2. Of or pertaining to a musical organ.
| 1633 Ames Agst. Cerem. ii. 404 His denying of Organall musicke to have beene significant or typicall, is without reason. |
3. Of or pertaining to the medieval style of part-singing known as organum. (Cf. organum1.)
| 1916 Stanford & Forsyth Hist. Mus. 128 At this time the organal voice had..become finally fixed in its position above the plain-song. 1932 Music & Lett. XIII. 190 The melody has a long reciting note on b, which, as he [sc. Otker] says, ‘has no proper organal response.’ 1977 Early Music July 337/1 The upper voice seems rather like an ornamented organal voice. |