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† eˈxotical, a. Obs.
[f. exotic a. + -al1.]
1. Of foreign origin or growth; imported from abroad; = exotic a. 1.
1601Holland Pliny xxii. xxiv, We may both preserve and recover our health..without these exotical and forraine drugs. 1672H. Dodwell 2 Lett. of Advice (1691) 204 Most of them [certain canonized Heroes] are exotical (which is the reason of their strangeness in the Greek). 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 309 This word ἀθηνᾶ..was not originally Greekish, but exotical.
2. Of or pertaining to foreigners, or a foreign country; foreign; hence barbarous, outlandish, strange; = exotic a. 2.
1608Bp. Hall Epist. i. viii, Many..have brought nothing from forraine countries, but mishapen cloathes, or exoticall gestures. 1641‘Smectymnuus’ Vind. Answ. xvi. 207 Nor did we ever intend to affixe those exoticall positions of unsound teachers..upon her. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. 51 Of the same Colour and Complexion with some Sectary exotical Tenets.
Hence eˈxotically adv., in an exotic, foreign, or outlandish manner. † eˈxoticalness, the quality or state of being exotic.
1670–98R. Lassels Voy. Italy II. 116 A great train of horse⁓men and trumpeters clad exotically. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Exoticalness; whence in mod. Dicts. 1947‘W. Targ’ Carrousel for Bibliophiles 398 Arthur Morrison's exotically titled The Green Eye of Goona..was transmuted by the American publisher—and one wonders why—into The Green Diamond. |