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Definition of Mensal
1. Adjective. The dining table.
Definition of Mensal
1. a. Belonging to the table; transacted at table; as, mensal conversation.
2. a. Occurring once in a month; monthly.
Definition of Mensal
1. Adjective. Occurring once in a month; monthly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mensal
1. pertaining to or used at the table [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mensal
Literary usage of Mensal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant by Charles Harcourt Chambers, William David Evans (1823)
"mensal lands of a bishopric appear to be such lands as in former times were
considered requisite to the maintenance of the table of the bishop; or, ..."
2. The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the by Robert Candlish Henderson, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1908)
"... of his mensal or patrimonial kirks, it was not necessary to cite the ministers
serving the cures, because they had no interest in the ..."
3. The History of the Province of Moray: Comprising the Counties of Elgin and by Lachlan Shaw (1882)
"... and the clause devised to elude the danger of challenge by a successor in the
Benefice. The Bishop's mensal Churches were Elgin, St. Andrews, Dyke, ..."