Definitions for "Referential"
using a particular historic event in a poem
when used to describe a poem, play, or story, referential means making textual use of a specific historical moment or event or, more broadly, making use of external, "natural," or "actual" detail.
Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use.
referring or pointing to something; "symbols are inherently referential"
Keywords:  thing, relating, act, another, one
Relating to the act of reference, by which one thing refers to another.
Keywords:  language, function, see
See Referential function of language