a. Now rare. [f. as next + -AL.] = EQUESTRIAN.
1553. Grimalde, trans. Cicero’s Duties (1558), 100/1. It was wont to be done abrode by vs of the Equestriall order.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 232. The sight of one of these is nothing inferiour to the equestrial party coloured caparisons.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 289. One hundred sixty fiue marble statues of worthy personages, partly equestriall, partly pedestriall.
1719. Ozell, trans. Misson’s Trav. Eng., 309 (D.). Two others of the same King, one equestrial, and most furiously ugly.
1883. C. Beard, Reformation, iii. 96. The equestrial portrait which represents him triumphing over the Protestants on the battle-field of Mühlberg.
