curatical

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UK/kjʊəˈɹætɪkəl/US/kjəˈɹætɪkəl/

adjective

Curatial; curatic.

First used 18th c.Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivecuratical (comparative more curatical, superlative most curatical)

comparative more curatical · superlative most curatical

  1. Curatial; curatic.First known use 18th c.
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    They said it was a reaction; that after the restraint of Sunday with its three services, especially the last when he was permitted to pour out his wild curatical eloquence, the need of doing something violent and savage was most powerful; that he had, so to say, to wash out the Sunday taste with blood.

    1922 November 29 [1921 October 29], W. H. Hudson, “Wasps and Men” (chapter XXXIII), in A Traveller in Little Things, New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, page 290

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