Meanings
adjectiveflaminical (not comparable)
- Ancient Romenot comparablePertaining to a flamen.
flaminical taboo
3 more examples
flaminical college
flaminical couple
the unclouded serenity of Christian religion , with the dark overcasting of superstitious copes and flaminical vestures
1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latinflāmen, flāminis“priest”
- Englishflaminical
From oblique stem of Latin flāmen, flāminis (“priest”) + -ic + -al.
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