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1,969 words match “TICAL”

DIPLOMATIC; DIPLOMATICAL a. 3 definitions

Pertaining to diplomacy; relating to the foreign ministers at a court, who are called the diplomatic body.

DIPLOMATICALLY adv.

According to the rules of diplomacy; in the manner of a diplomatist; artfully.

DITHEISTIC; DITHEISTICAL a.

Pertaining to ditheism; dualistic.

Diuretic. [Obs.] Boyle.

DIURETICALNESS n.

The quality of being diuretical; diuretic property.

DOGMATIC; DOGMATICAL a. 2 definitions

g. Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way. Spectator. [They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient. Glanvill. Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics.

DOGMATICALLY adv.

In a dogmatic manner; positively; magisterially.

DOGMATICALNESS n.

The quality of being dogmatical; positiveness.

DOMESTICAL a. 2 definitions

Domestic. [Obs.] Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney.

DOMESTICALLY adv.

In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

DRAMATIC; DRAMATICAL a.

Of or pertaining to the drama; appropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid. The emperor . . . performed his part with much dramatic effect. Motley.

DRAMATICALLY adv.

In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.

DYSPEPTIC; DYSPEPTICAL a.

Pertaining to dyspepsia; having dyspepsia; as, a dyspeptic or dyspeptical symptom.

ECCLESIASTICAL a.

urch; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts. Every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and discipline was an abomination. Cowper. Ecclesiastical commissioners for England, a permanent commission established by Parliament in 1…

ECCLESIASTICALLY adv.

In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.

ECLECTICALLY adv.

In an eclectic manner; by an eclectic method.

ECSTATICAL a. 2 definitions

Ecstatic. Bp. Stillingfleet.

ECSTATICALLY adv.

Rapturously; ravishingly.

EGOISTIC; EGOISTICAL a.

Pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving. Ill-natured feeling, or egoistic pleasure in making men miserable. G. Eliot.