colical
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]colical (comparative more colical, superlative most colical)
- Resembling or relating to colic.
- September 1 1733, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
- colical pains
- September 1 1733, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
- Subject to or suffering from colic.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- I have already learn'd to apply my selfe unto it; and am now entring into covenant with this chollicall kinde of life; for therein I finde matter, wherewith to comfort me, and to hope better.