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poetical
po·et·ic·al
US/poʊˈɛtɪkl̩/UK/pəʊˈɛtɪkl̩/
adjective
What it means
- Synonym of poetic.
That our work, therefore, might be in no danger of being likened to the labours of these historians, we have taken every occasion of interspersing through the whole sundry similes, descriptions, and other kind of poetical embellishments.
1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IVSynonyms: poetic
In a sentence
That our work, therefore, might be in no danger of being likened to the labours of these historians, we have taken every occasion of interspersing through the whole sundry similes, descriptions, and other kind of poetical embellishments.
1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV
Where it comes from
- Middle Englishpoetical
- Englishpoetical
From Middle English poetical, possibly equivalent to poet + -ical.
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