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coxˈcombical, a.
Also coxcomical.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. Of the nature of or resembling a coxcomb; foolishly conceited; foppish.
1716Rowe Biter ii. i, Such a..whimsical coxcomical..kind of a Husband. 1749Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) II. 524 She is a little coxcombical, and affects to be learned. 1820Examiner No. 633. 345/1 Some coxcombical bookseller..introduced the fashion. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xviii, He is..the most coxcomical and utterly brainless ass!
2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a coxcomb.
1770F. Burney Early Diary, He..assumed a coxcombical assurance and indolence joined. 1820Scott Monast. xiv, That singularly coxcomical work, called Euphues and his England. 1844Kinglake Eothen viii. (1878) 123 A curiously coxcombical lisp. 1861T. A. Trollope La Beata I. iv. 76 The tirade..was only one part coxcombical to three parts satirical.
Hence coxcombiˈcality, coxcombical quality or act. coxˈcombically adv., in a coxcombical manner, like a coxcomb.
1766Wesley Wks. (1872) XII. 308 Cure him of his coxcomicality, and he may do good. 1834H. C. Robinson Diary III. 53 Not the least of his coxcombicalities. a1763Byrom Remarks (R.), This coxcombically mingling Of rhymes, unrhyming, interjingling. 1835Blackw. Mag. XXXVII. 434 Your creatures who prate coxcombically of belonging to the juste milieu. |