vidual, a.
(ˈvɪdjuːəl)
Also 6 widual.
[ad. late L. viduāl-is, f. vidua widow. So OF. vidual, Sp. vidual, It. viduale.]
Of or belonging to, befitting, a widow or widowhood; widowed.
| 1550 Bale Apol. 37 The estate of widual clennesse is than most fytt, whan [etc.]. 1598 Florio, Vedouile, viduall, widow-like. 1624 Heywood Gunaik. vi. 282 Others there bee that have kept a viduall chastitie even in wedlocke. 1647 Trapp Comm. 1 Tim. v. 12 ‘Cast off their first faith’: Not that of their baptisme.. but their viduall promised chastity and service to the Saints. 1710 Norris Chr. Prud. iii. 106 One may as well say, Virginal, or Conjugal, or Vidual Prudence as any of these. 1752 Richardson Let. in Mrs. Barbauld Life (1804) III. 192 Shall we show Harriet, after a departure glorious to the hero, in her vidual glory? 1876 World V. 12 She too retains still a deeply vidual costume. 1897 F. Thompson New Poems 34 She..Who in most dusk and vidual curch, Her Lord being hence, Keeps her cold sorrows by thy hearse. Ibid. 44 No more shall you sit sole and vidual. |
Hence ˈvidually adv.
| 1818 J. Brown Psyche 93 If marriage solace she prefers Before a solitary pillow, Or wearing vidually the willow. |