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symptomatical, a. Now rare or Obs.|sɪmptəˈmætɪkəl|
[Formed as prec.: see -ical.]
1. Path. = prec. 1.
1586Bright Melanch. xvi. 89 In simptomaticall euents in sicknes. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. i. iii. 33 Whether the feaver be primarie, or a principall guest, or symptomaticall, accompanying the disease as the shadow doth the bodie. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. v. xx. 295 In (not, Symptomatical, but) Essential Feavers. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. ii. v. (1852) 386 He fell into a quinsie, with a symptomatical fever. 1748R. James Diss. Fevers (1749) 5 Sweats, which are not spontaneous, but extorted, generally prove symptomatical and noxious, instead of being critical and salutary. a1776Ibid. (1778) 65 Other evacuations.., as they only arise from the symptoms, or from the agonies of nature, unequal to the task of surmounting the difficulties she is oppressed with..are called symptomatical.
2. gen. = prec. 3.
1628Jackson Creed vi. i. i. §2 The more right resemblances we make to ourselves of any thing, the greater will be the symptomatical impression of the latent truth. 1742Richardson Pamela (1785) III. xl. 387, I dare say, your Thoughtfulness is but symptomatical, and will go off, in proper Time. 1816Scott Antiq. xiv, Visions..very symptomatical of poetic fury. |