domestical

comparative more domestical · superlative most domestical · alternative domesticall

1. archaicDomestic.

   Our private and domestical matter.

   a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 1 April 1868, →OCLC

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   It were a kind of treason to do so in our owne affaires and domesticall [translating domestiques] matters, wherein of necessity one must resolve and take a side; but for a man that hath neither charge nor expresse commandement to urge him, not to busie or entermedle himselfe therein, I holde it more excusable […]

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter I, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

alternative domesticall

1. archaicA domestic; a household servant; a member of a household.