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Webster 1913 Edition
Genial
1.
Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.
“The genial bed.” Milton.
Creator Venus,
genial
power of love. Dryden.
2.
Contributing to, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life; sympathetically cheerful and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly;
as, she was of a cheerful and
. genial
dispositionSo much I feel my
genial
spirits droop. Milton.
3.
Belonging to one’s genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.
[Obs.]
Natural incapacity and
genial
indisposition. Sir T. Browne.
4.
Denoting or marked with genius; belonging to the higher nature.
[R.]
Men of genius have often attached the highest value to their less
genial
works. Hare.
Genial gods
(Pagan Mythol.)
, the powers supposed to preside over marriage and generation.
Webster 1828 Edition
Genial
GE'NIAL
,Adj.
1.
Contributing to propagation or production; that causes to produce. Creator, Venus, genial power of love.
2.
Gay; merry.3.
Enlivening; contributing to life and cheerfulness; supporting life. So much I feel my genial spirits droop.
4.
Native; natural. [Not usual.] The genial gods, in pagan antiquity, were supposed to preside over generation, as earth, air, fire and water.