authentical
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English[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
authentical (comparative more authentical, superlative most authentical)
- (archaic) Authentic.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- He graunted it: and streight his warrant made, / Under the Sea-gods seale autenticall […].
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 33, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- The curious and exact care he had of his body, is an authenticall witnesse of it, forsomuch as he used the most lascivious meanes that then were in use […].
- 1609, Douay–Rheims Bible, title page:
- The Holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin.
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References[edit]
- “authentical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.