Meanings
comparative more dentistical · superlative most dentistical
- Resembling, or relating to, a dentist.
Some of them have little boxes of dentistical-looking implements, specially intended for the skrimshandering business.
1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick2 more examples
And yet even the crocodile likes to have his teeth cleaned; insects get into them, and, horrible reptile though he be, he opens his jaws inoffensively to a faithful dentistical bird, who volunteers his beak for a toothpick.
1853, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel, or Varieties in English LifeTo know that he is always keeping a secret from her; that he has, under all circumstances, to conceal and hold fast a tender double tooth, which her sharpness is ever ready to twist out of his head; gives Mr. Snagsby, in her dentistical presence, much of the air of a dog who has a reservation from his master and will look anywhere rather than meet his eye.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
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