a. and sb. Obs. [a. OF. victorial or ad. late L. victōriāl-is, f. L. victōria VICTORY sb. So It. vittoriale.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to victory; victorious.
c. 1460. Wisdom, 1119, in Macro Plays, 72. Now ye haue receyuyde þe crownnys victoryall To regne in blys withowtyn ende!
1501. in Dunbar’s Poems, lxxxviii. 38. London,… thy Tour founded of old May be the hous of Mars victoryall.
1513. Bradshaw, St. Werburge, II. 298. They kneled all downe with mycle reuerence, Salutynge the shryne with honour victoriall.
1611. Cotgr., Victorial, Victoriall, of or belonging to victorie.
1649. Roberts, Clavis Bibl., 114. This Song is a Triumphant Victorial Song, or Song for Victory that Israel had over Sisera’s Host.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, II. xxvii. (1694), 163. Pantagruel for an eternal Memorial wrote this victorial ditton.
B. sb. pl. Games in honor of victory.
1657. Thornley, trans. Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe, 83. They carows’d, and danc’d, and celebrated victorials.
