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typical, a.|ˈtɪpɪkəl|
[ad. med.L. typicālis figurative, symbolic (Thomas Aquinas, c 1150), f. L. typicus typic: see -ical.]
1. Of the nature of, or serving as, a type or emblem; pertaining or relating to a type or types; symbolical, emblematic.
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 6 (1619) 99 Were they not all typicall representations of that spirituall holines, wherin even we ought to resemble them? 1616Bullokar Eng. Expos., Typicall, mysticall, or that which serueth as a shadow and figure of an other thing. 1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §72. 319 Both the Psalmes are typicall, and prophesie of Christ, and his joyfull comming. a1661Fuller Worthies, York (1662) ii. 230 He renewed the custome of expounding Scripture in a typicall way. 1711Hickes Two Treat. Chr. Priesth. (1847) II. 188 The typical Melchisedec, the sacerdotal king of Salem. 1784Cowper Task iv. 218 Ensanguin'd hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblem of untimely graves. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 601 In the daily sacrifice..the lamb..was typical of the precious blood-shedding of the Lamb without spot upon the Cross. 1865R. W. Dale Jew. Temp. xiv. (1877) 159 The typical character of Old Testament ritualism, and of Old Testament history. 1898C. Bell tr. Huysman's Cathedral xi. 223 Samuel, in many ways typical of Christ.
2. Having the qualities of a type or specimen; serving as a representative specimen of a class or kind.
1860Tyndall Glac. ii. App. 434 The facts which I have brought before you are typical facts. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 359 A perfectly normal and typical flower should possess a calyx, corolla, stamens, and carpels. 1874Parker Goth. Archit. i. v. 162 Exeter Cathedral is..the best typical example of the early part of this style. 1875Fortnum Maiolica ix. 81 Their style would be..typical of the Valencian pottery. 1881Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. ii. vi. 249 Horace is a typical Roman of the intellectual sort.
b. Nat. Hist. That is the type of the genus, family, etc.
1847Webster, Typical,..2. In natural history, pertaining to or constituting a type. 1861Rep. Smithsonian Instit. 1860, 192 The typical genus, Pleurotoma.
c. Path. Of a fever: = typic 2.
1857[see typic 2]. 1875tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. II. 599 Masked intermittents usually show themselves as typical neuralgia.
3. Of or pertaining to a type or representative specimen; distinctive, characteristic.
1850McCosh Div. Govt. ii. i. (1874) 123 The normal or typical number of toes is ten,..corresponding to the typical number of the digits. 1862Burton Bk. Hunter (1863) 290 Hitting off the deeper and typical characteristics of Scottish life. 1891Swinburne Stud. Prose & Poetry (1894) 18 The typical English vices of egotism, hypocrisy, and envy.
4. Of or pertaining to printers' type; typographical. Now rare or Obs.
1770G. Faulkner in Abp. Boulter's Lett. I. p. vii, I have..corrected some typical errors that are in the London Edition. 1822Blackw. Mag. XI. 7 Should you ever descend from your correctorship of typical errata. 1837Lockhart Scott xliv. (1839) VI. 87 Numerous typical errors which sprang of necessity from the author's inability to correct any proof-sheets.
Hence typiˈcality = typicalness.
1863H. James Subst. & Shadow 222 Such men..have spurned the empty typicality of the church. 1890W. Whitman in Pall Mall G. 26 Aug. 7/2 If America is only for the rule and fashion and small typicality of other lands (the rule of the état-major) it is not the land I take it for. 1900Speaker 22 Dec. 317/2 The propriety, justice and typicality of the picture. |