cupidical

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adjective

Of or relating to erotic love.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivecupidical (comparative more cupidical, superlative most cupidical)

comparative more cupidical · superlative most cupidical

  1. obsoleteOf or relating to erotic love.

    1620, John Florio (attributed translator), The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, London: Isaac Jaggard, Day 4, [p. 151b], […] the Friar hearing his Cupidicall visitations ouer-publikely discouered, purposed to check and reproue Lisetta for her indiscretion.

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    1770, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. K—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, p. 25, I don’t wonder the cricket-match yielded no amusement—all sport is dull, books unentertaining—Wisdom’s self but folly—to a mind under Cupidical influence.

    […] the largest square or park in Cairo, the Esbekeyah […] where […] all kinds of intrigues, political, cupidical, and otherwise, are carried on.

    1892 March, John E. Sundstrom, “Reminiscences of Travels in Egypt”, in Bulletin of the Geographical Society of California, published 1893, Volume 1, Part 1, p. 50

Origin

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