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Genial adj. (Anat.) Same as Genian.

Genial adj.

Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive. "The genial bed." "Creator Venus, genial power of love."

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."

Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn. (Obs.) "Natural incapacity and genial indisposition."

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

... upon the whole, the career of Andersen is prosperous, and his life genial. We find him in friendly intercourse with the best spirits of the age. The lad who walked about Odense with long yellow locks, bare-headed, and bare-footed, and who was half reconciled to being a tailor's apprentice, because he should get plenty of remnants to dress his puppets with—is seen spending ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various

... times, and at times simply dreaming, The very room itself becomes a friend, The confidant of intimate hopes and fears; A place where are engendered pleasant thoughts, And possibilities before unguessed Come to fruition born of sympathy. And as in some gay garden stretched upon A genial southern slope, warmed by the sun, The flowers give their fragrance joyously To the caressing touch of the hot noon; So books give up the all of what they mean Only in a congenial atmosphere, Only when touched by reverent ...

— A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass • Amy Lowell

... had inherited no trace of their harshness and gloom. The windows of his soul opened to the sunlight of a joyous faith. His optimism and genial humor inspired gladness and good sense in others. With an old story he prepared their minds to receive new ideas, and with a parable he opened their hearts to generous feelings. All men loved him because he loved them. They knew that his heart ...

— The Song of the Stone Wall • Helen Keller

... have done with aspirations and ambitions—whose life has been a broken arch—feel this repose and self-restraint as they feel nothing else." The Education is in fact the record, tragic and pathetic underneath its genial irony, of the defeat of fine aspirations and laudable ambitions. It is the story of a life which the man himself, in his old age, looked back upon ...

— Modern American Prose Selections • Various

... the Empire as a builder of railways. Van Horne was a somewhat extraordinary composite. I recall having the privilege of being under his guidance around the fine art gallery of Lord Strathcona in Montreal, and had evidence not only of his genial companionship, but of his being an art connoisseur as well as a skilled user of the brush himself. Socially and in his home he was full of comradeship and bright joviality, but as a railroader he was as inflexible and apparently unemotional as the material ...

— Policing the Plains - Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police • R.G. MacBeth

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