Definition of "rictal" []

• Possessing the qualities of a rictus (adjective)

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• "The engraver's tools make beautiful striations and cross-hatchings on foliage and on birds' wings and rictal bristles, feathers fine as whiskers, that watercolor alone can never produce."
• "Race, gender, appearance, body language, rictal spouses and offspring, even bursts of tragic grandeur, are all subsumed by marketing and "image-making", now magnified by "virtual" technology."
• "He jammed a chair under the doorknob and shot himself up with enough heroin to blow the heart out of a draft horse, his mouth rictal when the rush took him."