a. [mod. f. L. contextu-s + -AL, after textual which goes back to 17th c.] Of or belonging to the context; depending only on the context.
1812–29. S. T. Coleridge, Lit. Rem., III. 113. To the contempt or neglect of the literal and contextual sense.
1858. Gladstone, Homer, III. 229. The word Troes … is sometimes confined strictly to the inhabitants of the city: but … perhaps always with contextual indications that such is the sense.
1887. Academy, 5 March. I would not use them as a final appeal on the passage in question, for they are not contextual to it.
Mod. The meaning assigned to the word here is merely contextual.
