a. [f. as prec. + -IAL.] Of or pertaining to the forest.
1696. Brookhouse, Temple Opened, 54. The Temporal Power is the Forrest, which incloses and guards the Fruitful Field of the Church. Ibid., 55. Christ presides over the Forrestial Kingdoms, and makes Kings the Nursing Fathers, and Queens the Nursing-Mothers thereof.
1840. Blackw. Mag., XLVIII. Sept., 320/1. A rising ground giving us a pretty extensive view over its brown and dreary wastes, which have more resemblance to a Scottish moor than to one of the royal forestial demesnes of merry England.
