cupidical
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cupidical (comparative more cupidical, superlative most cupidical)
- (obsolete) Of or relating to erotic love.
- 1620, John Florio (attributed translator), The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, London: Isaac Jaggard, Day 4, [p. 151b],[1]
- […] the Friar hearing his Cupidicall visitations ouer-publikely discouered, purposed to check and reproue Lisetta for her indiscretion.
- 1770, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. K—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, p. 25,[2]
- I don’t wonder the cricket-match yielded no amusement—all sport is dull, books unentertaining—Wisdom’s self but folly—to a mind under Cupidical influence.
- 1892 March, John E. Sundstrom, “Reminiscences of Travels in Egypt”, in Bulletin of the Geographical Society of California[3], published 1893, Volume 1, Part 1, p. 50:
- […] the largest square or park in Cairo, the Esbekeyah […] where […] all kinds of intrigues, political, cupidical, and otherwise, are carried on.
- 1620, John Florio (attributed translator), The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, London: Isaac Jaggard, Day 4, [p. 151b],[1]