Endocrinal

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    endocrine not-comparable

    "That he who has the time should lack the force, that she who has the force should lack the time! That a trifling and in all probability tractable obstruction of some endocrinal Bandusia, that a mere matter of forty-five or fifty minutes by the clock, should as effectively as death itself, or as the Hellespont, separate lovers."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions wordnet

Example

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"That he who has the time should lack the force, that she who has the force should lack the time! That a trifling and in all probability tractable obstruction of some endocrinal Bandusia, that a mere matter of forty-five or fifty minutes by the clock, should as effectively as death itself, or as the Hellespont, separate lovers."

Etymology

From endocrine + -al.

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