Definition of "pursual" []

• The act of pursuit. (noun)

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• "Of course, between you and me, those investigations could very well lead to the uncovering of information that would virtually mandate pursual of impeachment."
• "Ditto a lot of the more mainstream fiction that I've picked up over the last year or two, and likewise going the way of McKay Used Books and CDs is a great deal of stuff I've got leftover from my days of degree-pursual (why oh WHY do I still own SO MUCH of this crap?)."
• "We have thought it worth while to give in detail this method of teaching to read, because it is the most entertaining to children to be taught so, and because many successful instances of the pursual of this plan have come under our observation; and one advantage of it has been, that the children so taught, though never going through the common spelling-lessons, have uniformly exhibited a rare exactness in orthography."