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pneuˈmatical, a. (n.) Now rare or Obs.
[f. as prec. + -al1: see -ical.]
A. adj.
†1. = prec. 1. Obs.
1609Boys On Ps. xcviii. 4–6 Wks. (1629) 36 All kind of musicke, Vocall..Chordall..Pneumaticall, With trumpets. 1634J. B[ate] Myst. Nat. 28 Amongst all these experiments pneumaticall, there is none more excellent than this of the Weather-Glass. 1660Boyle (title) New Experiments..Touching the Spring of the Air..Made..in a New Pneumatical Engine. Ibid. Experim. i, The Dilatation of the Air in Wind-Guns and other pneumatical Engines wherein the Air has been compress'd. 1696Phillips (ed. 5) s.v., An Organ is a Pneumatical Instrument. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 31 The thermometer is a chemical rather than a pneumatical instrument.
†2. Of the nature of air, gaseous; relating to gases (= prec. 2). Obs.
1626Bacon Sylva §29 The Race and Period of all things, here above the Earth, is to extenuate and turn things to be more Pneumaticall and Rare. 1685Boyle Enq. Notion Nat. 254 Fluids, whether Visible or Pneumatical. 1793D. Stewart Outl. Moral Philos. §272 (1855) 140 The pneumatical discoveries of modern chemistry. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. I. xi. 431 Mr. Boyle..obtained a pneumatical fluid, answering his then only criterion of air.
3. As rendering of Gr. πνευµατικός in philosophical or theological use: cf. prec. 4, 4 b.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 789 One of which they called, Pneumatical, or the Spirituous Body; which is weaved out as it were to it, and compounded of the Gross Sensible Body (it being the more Thin and Subtle part thereof). 1708H. Dodwell Nat. Mort. Hum. Souls 46 The Psychical Body must be cloathed up with a Pneumatical Body. 1741in Grant Univ. Edinb. (1884) I. 273 Professor of Pneumatical and Ethical Philosophy. 1868Contemp. Rev. VII. 599 The resurrection is not that of the disembodied ψυχή at the moment of death, nor of earthly relics, but the transformation from a psychical to a pneumatical body. 1891tr. Sabatier's Paul iv. §3. 90 That which for lack of another name we have called the pneumatical life, taking its rise at the point of contact between the human soul and the invisible world.
†B. n. A gaseous substance (cf. 2 above). Obs.
1626Bacon Sylva §98 The Spirits or Pneumaticalls, that are in all Tangible Bodies are scarce known. Ibid. §354 In the inferior order of pneumaticals there is air and flame; and in the superior there is the body of the star and the pure sky.
Hence pneuˈmatically adv. (in various senses of pneumatic or pneumatical); spec. (in mod. use) by means of compressed air; also fig.
c1700D. G. Harangues Quack Doctors 15 Hypnotically..Pneumatically, or Synechdochically. 1800Howard in Phil. Trans. XC. 216, I resolved it into these different principles, by distilling it pneumatically with nitric acid. 1904Daily Chron. 17 Sept. 5/5 The Welch patents for fastening a detachable outer case to the pneumatically-tyred rim of a wheel, thus rendering rapid roadside repairs possible, finished their thorny course yesterday. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 29 Four guns were installed, harmonized and fired pneumatically. 1958Times 23 June 14/3 Equipping three Russian whalers with plant for cubing whale meat and transferring it pneumatically to storage vessels at sea. 1975Radiol. CXV. 222/1 (heading) A pneumatically operated femoral artery compressor. 1975D. O'Sullivan in D. Marcus Best Irish Short Stories (1977) II. 90 ‘It [sc. beer]'s blowing me out,’ said Anne pneumatically. |