a. rare. [f. L. virga rod.] Made of twigs or rods.
1732. Fielding, Covent Gard. Trag., I. iii. Oh! would’st thou bear … To see the hangman lift the virgal rod?
1880. Daily Tel., 23 Feb. The terrible ‘Croquemitaine’ and his frightful spouse … flourish their virgal sceptres to the terror of insubordinate juveniles.
