poetical
English
Etymology
From Middle English poetical, possibly equivalent to poet + -ical.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: po‧et‧ic‧al
Adjective
poetical (comparative more poetical, superlative most poetical)
- Synonym of poetic.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
- That our work, therefore, might be in no danger of being likened to the labours of these historians, we have taken every occasion of interspersing through the whole sundry similes, descriptions, and other kind of poetical embellishments.