Thesaurus: virginal

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1. a. Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.
2. n. An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.
3. v. i. To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat.
4. adj. characteristic of a virgin or virginity
5. adj. untouched or undefiled
6. adj. in a state of sexual virginity
7. n. a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries
8. Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly. "Chastity and honor virginal." Spenser. Virginal generation (Biol.), parthenogenesis. -- Virginal membrane (Anat.), the hymen. An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals. To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat. [Obs.] "Still virginaling upon his palm!" Shak.
9. Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly."Chastity and honor virginal." Spenser. Virginal generation (Biol.),parthenogenesis.-- Virginal membrane (Anat.), the hymen.
10. j:100 n. a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries a. characteristic of a virgin or virginity s. untouched or undefiled