a. [f. prec. + -AL.]
† 1. Due to, or arising from, education. Obs.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 30. The educationall and professionall, are to be imputed, and accounted for Nationall sinnes.
1790. Cath. M. Graham, Lett. Educ., 132. Every love intrigue, though it does not terminate in such horrid catastrophes, must naturally tend to debase the female mind, from its violence to educational impressions, [etc.].
1815. Ashbel Green, Report, 287. Opinions which interfered with his educational creed.
2. Of or pertaining to education; concerned with education.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., II. xi. Is there not an everlasting demand for Intellect in the … political, or religious, educational, commercial departments.
1837. Bulwer, Athens, II. 413. Much of his [Pythagoras’] educational discipline … bear[s] an evident affinity to the old Cretan … institutions.
1840. Mill, Diss. & Disc. (1859), II. 192. The regeneration … of our educational institutions is an object of more urgency.
1876. Grant, Burgh Sch. Scotl., Pref. 5. The history of educational progress in any country, can hardly fail to be interesting to the historian.
Hence Educationally adv., with reference to education; from an educational point of view.
1845. R. W. Hamilton, Pop. Educ., viii. (ed. 2), 196. Educationally considered, the sister isle is not an ignorant country.
1881. Atlantic Monthly, XLVII. 296/2. Educationally he has been of service to us, and merits our thanks.
1886. Durham Univ. Jrnl., 20 Feb., 3. The Durham course is educationally better than what a Theological College is able to offer.
