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orthographical, a.|ɔːθəʊˈgræfɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1: see -ical.]
1. Pertaining to orthography; belonging to correct spelling, or to spelling in general; correct in spelling.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. x. (Arb.) 172 That I might with better warrant haue vsed in their steads these words, orthographicall or syntacticall, which the learned Grammarians left ready made to our hands. c1629Mede Wks. (1672) 784 Could I have gotten an orthographical Scribe, I would have sent your Lordship all ere this. 1653Brome Mad Couple well Match'd i. i. Wks. 1873 III. 5 His..Orthographicall speaking friend..that cals People Pe-o-ple. 1712Addison Spect. No. 499 ⁋1 Having rectified some little orthographical mistakes. 1747Johnson Plan Eng. Dict. Wks. 1787 IX. 172 The great orthographical contest has long subsisted between etymology and pronunciation. 1867Nation (N.Y.) 3 Jan. 9/1 In a majority of our words, orthographical changes have disguised or affixes have smothered the radical.
2. = orthographic 1.
1706Phillips, Orthographical Projection of the Sphere, is a drawing the Surface of a Sphere on a Plane which cuts it in the middle; the Eye being vertically plac'd at an infinite distance from one of the Hemispheres. Ibid. s.v. Orthography, Orthographical Section, is a Profil or Draught, which shews the thickness, breadth, depth and height of any Work, as it would appear, if perpendicularly cut off from the highest to the lowest part of it. 1864Burton Scot Abr. II. i. 126 Excellently well skilled in..the orthographical projections. |