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Genial   /dʒˈinjəl/   Listen
adjective
Genial  adj.  (Anat.) Same as Genian.



Genial  adj.  
1.
Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive. "The genial bed." "Creator Venus, genial power of love."
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 disposition. "So much I feel my genial spirits droop."
3.
Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn. (Obs.) "Natural incapacity and genial indisposition."
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."
Genial gods (Pagan Mythol.), the powers supposed to preside over marriage and generation.





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"Genial" Quotes from Famous Books



... gods the genial day prolong, In feasts ambrosial, and celestial song. Apollo tuned the lyre; the Muses round With voice alternate aid ...
— The Story of Troy • Michael Clarke
 
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... at the different parts of the globular surface. It is for the same reason that the eye becomes the most attractive part of the human form, and why some are actually overcome by a piercing glance, or subdued by the genial ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen • Roger Finlay
 
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... in at Baltimore, Bok's genial neighbor sent him a hearty good-bye and ran out with the much-maligned magazine ...
— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok (1863-1930)
 
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... man; and where a country loses its humor, as some towns in Ireland are doing, there will be a morbidity of mind, as Baudelaire's mind was morbid. In the greater part of Ireland, however, the whole people, from the tinkers to the clergy, have still a life, and view of life, that are rich and genial and humorous. I do not think that these country people, who have so much humor themselves, will mind being laughed at without malice, as the people in every country have been laughed at, in ...
— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt
 
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... Jehovah, though with us he has acquired new attributes, is more absolute and unapproachable, but hardly more divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks. I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal, hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no Sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau
 
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