a. [f. next + -AL.] Relating to or of the nature of a cynosure.
1855. Kingsley, Westw. Ho! I. ii. 69. Had either, Madam, of that cynosural triad [of poets] been within call of my most humble importunities, your ears had been delectate with far nobler melody.
1885. Huxley, in Times, 9 June, 10. To preserve the statue in its cynosural position in this entrance-hall.
