a. [f. L. absinthi-um wormwood + -AL.] Of or pertaining to wormwood; hence bitter.
c. 1525. Skelton, Image Hypoc., II. 309. Doctors that take all. By lawes absynthyall. And labyrinthiall.
1860. R. A. Vaughan, Ho. w. Mystics (ed. 2), I. 110. It was once called the Valley of Wormwood … Bernard and his monks come … lo! the absinthial reputation vanishes—the valley smiles—is called, and made, Clairvaux, or Brightdale.
