euctical

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euctical (comparative more euctical, superlative most euctical)

  1. Expecting a wish; supplicatory.
    • 1745, Edmund Law, Considerations on the State of the World with regard to the Theory of Religion:
      sacrifices [] distinguished into expiatory, euctical, and eucharistical

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for euctical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)