agential

Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.
    • Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own...
  2. That forms agent nouns.
    • Even if the suffix be formally identical with the agential suffix, it has not the same function. - 1918, Henry Bradley, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume IX, page 922, column 2:

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin agēnsder. English agent Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisder. Old French -ialder. Middle English -ial English -ial English agential From agent + -ial.

Forms

more agential most agential

Derived

agentially

Noun

  1. An affix that forms agent nouns.
    • Semantically, a majority of agentials refer to avian vocalization. Examples are: screamer, whistler, warbler, trumpeter, and the suffixless chat. - 1986, Geolinguistics, page 19:

Forms

agentials