a. Obs. rare. [f. L. Vertumn-us (see next); by Adams falsely associated with vēr spring, VER sb.1] a. Vernal. b. Of or pertaining to Vertumnus.
1622. T. Adams, Eirenopolis, 182. Her smiles are more reuiuing then the Vertumnall Sunneshine. Ibid. (1633), Exp. 2 Peter iii. 8. We cannot … keep back the cowslip to August, nor the vertumnal flowers to autumn.
1705. N. Tate, trans. Cowley’s Plants, C.’s Wks. 1711, III. 405. The Goddess her Vertumnal Rites prepares.
