a. [f. prec. + -AL.] 1. Of or pertaining to construction.

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1870.  F. R. Wilson, Ch. Lindisf., 70. The only evidences are constructional and sculpturesque.

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1881.  T. Hardy, Laodicean, III. V. xii. 157. Mere constructional superintendence was all that he had deputed.

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  2.  Belonging to the original structure or design; structural.

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1859.  Jephson, Brittany, vi. 80. The chief constructional portions of the church are ‘early pointed.’

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1861.  Beresf. Hope, Eng. Cathedr. 19th C., vi. 219. If a gallery were in any case admissible, it must be a constructional one, and not one of those wretched scaffoldings on cast iron pillars or brackets.

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  3.  Of, pertaining to, or dependent upon interpretation of phraseology or intention.

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1737.  Waterland, Eucharist, 40 (T.). The nature of symbolical grants, and constructional conveyances.

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1839.  New Monthly Mag., LVI. 455. Nor can this be considered as a quibble, a constructional possession.

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