a. (sb.). Now rare or Obs. [f. late L. synchronus SYNCHRONOUS + -AL.]
1. = SYNCHRONOUS 1, 1 b. Const. to.
1660. H. More, Myst. Godl., V. xv. 182. The things that are found to be Synchronal, have also a natural connexion and complication one with another. Ibid. (1668), Div. Dial., V. xxxvii. 513. The Vision of things synchronal to the seven Thunders.
1672. Mede’s Wks., Gen. Pref. ****j. Those Passages in the Apocalyps which, though dispersed here and there, are Synchronal and Homogeneal.
1837. For. Q. Rev., XIX. 416. We, last year, brought before our readers a classical Italian tragedy upon the fall of … Napoleon, although the temerity of such synchronal dramatization was slightly veiled under old Assyrian names.
1856. P. Fairbairn, Prophecy, II. iii. § 3. 396. Any other prophetic symbols … that follow, must stand to it in the relation of synchronal, not of continuative and posterior developments.
2. = SYNCHRONOUS 2.
1876. J. Ellis, Cæsar in Egypt, 7. They blithely dance, well-timed by castanets, And cymbals, and the synchronal clap of hands.
† B. sb. A simultaneous or contemporary event.
1660. H. More, Myst. Godl., V. xvi. 197. The last Synchronals are those that are contemporary to the Seventh Trumpet. Ibid. (1681), Expos. Dan., App. I. 257. Those three Synchronals, the restored Beast, the Whore, and the Two-horned Beast. Ibid. (1685), Paralip. Prophet., xlii. 364.
