a. [f. prec. + -AL.]

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  1.  Phys. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a bursa (see BURSA 1).

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1751.  Phil. Trans., XLVII. xxxvii. 261. The bursal and crucial ligaments … were … in their natural order.

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1878.  T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 176. Bursal swellings.

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  2.  (See BURSA 2.]

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[1753.  Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., Bursa is more particularly used in middle age writers for a little college or hall in an university, for the residence of students, called bursales, or bursarii.]

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1852.  Sir W. Hamilton, Discuss. (1853), 24, note. Occupiers of the same bursal room.

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  3.  Pertaining to the public revenue.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. I. III. iv. 64. Quite another sort of Edicts, namely ‘bursal’ or fiscal ones.

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