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▪ I. peˈdantical, a.1 Now rare.
[f. as prec. + -al1: see -ical.]
= pedantic a. (Rare after 17th c.)
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 406 Three pil'd hyperboles,..Figures pedanticall. 1603North Plutarch (1676) 1003 This banished pedanticall companion Seneca (so did she [Agrippina] qualifie him). 1756Burke Vind. Nat. Soc. Wks. I. 29 Without a pedantical exactness. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. iv. 301 Fisher..was weak, superstitious, pedantical;..but he was a singlehearted man.
▪ II. † peˈdantical, a.2 Obs. rare—1.
[f. after It. *pedante, ppl. n. from pedare ‘to foot it’ (Florio).]
Travelling on foot, pedestrian.
1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 53 A way one Road broad, is called a high-way for passengers Pedanticall. |