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Authentical

Au-then′tic-al

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Adj.
Authentic.
[Archaic]

Definition 2024


authentical

authentical

English

Adjective

authentical (comparative more authentical, superlative most authentical)

  1. (archaic) Authentic.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.12:
      He graunted it: and streight his warrant made, / Under the Sea-gods seale autenticall [].
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.33:
      The curious and exact care he had of his body, is an authenticall witnesse of it, forsomuch as he used the most lascivious meanes that then were in use [].

References

  • authentical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913