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denˈtistical, a. rare.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a dentist.
1851H. Melville Whale xlvii. 303 Little boxes of dentistical-looking instruments. 1853Lytton My Novel (Rtldg.) 164 The crocodile..opens his jaws inoffensively to a faithful dentistical bird, who volunteers his beak for a toothpick. |