piaculous

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piaculous (comparative more piaculous, superlative most piaculous)

  1. Obsolete form of piacular.
    • 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (6th edition, book 3, chapter 25)
      And so, as Cæsar reports, unto the ancient Britains it was piaculous to taste a Goose, which dish at present no table is without.