a. Rom. Antiq. [ad. L. compitāl-is pertaining to cross-ways, f. compitum place where roads cross.] Of or pertaining to the cross-ways: applied to the shrines of the domestic gods placed at the corners of the streets in ancient Rome; also to the compitalia, an annual festival in honor of the Lares. Also as sb.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Compital, belonging to cross streets, or places where many waies meet.
1678. Phillips, Compital (Lat.), belonging to the Compita, or Cross-ways. Compitals, certain Feasts solemnized in those Cross-ways.
1882. R. Lanciani, in Athenæum, 10 June, 740. A compital shrine of the time of Augustus.
1883. J. H. Parker, Archæol. Rome, VI. Desc. Pl. IV. Compital Shrine, or wayside altar, at a cross-road.
