Meanings
comparative more authentical · superlative most authentical
- archaicAuthentic.
The Holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin.
1609, Douay–Rheims Bible, title page2 more examples
He graunted it: and streight his warrant made, / Under the Sea-gods seale autenticall[…].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLCThe curious and exact care he had of his body, is an authenticall witneſſe of it, forſomuch as hee vſed the moſt laſcivious meanes that then were in vſe, […]
1603, Michel de Montaigne, “The History of Spurina”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 418
Origin
From Classical Latin authenticus + -al. By surface analysis, authentic + -al.
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