poeticaladj.

Brit.

/pəʊˈɛtᵻkl/, U.S.

/poʊˈɛdək(ə)l/

Forms: late Middle English poetichall, late Middle English poetycal, late Middle English poetytycall (transmission error), late Middle English–1600s poeticall, late Middle English– poetical, 1500s poëticall, 1500s poetycall; Scottish pre-1700 poeticall, pre-1700 poietical, pre-1700 1700s– poetical.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin poēticus , -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < classical Latin poēticus poetic adj. + -al suffix¹; compare -ical suffix. Compare Middle French poetical (1478). Compare later poetic adj.

a. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of poets or poetry; = poetic adj. 1.In early use sometimes: †fictitious, imaginary (obsolete).poetical justice: see justice n. 1. poetical licence: see licence n. 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [adjective] > belonging to or befitting poet(s)

poetical?a1425

poetic1490

poetlyc1500

bard-like1763

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [adjective] > characteristic of poet(s)

poetical1585

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. pr. i. 47 She saugh thise poetical [L. poeticus] Muses aprochen aboute my bed and enditynge wordes to my wepynges.

c1425 [implied in: J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) Prol. 299 (MED) Ovide also poetycally hath closyd Falshede with trouthe. (at poetically adv. 1)].

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 1095 Here art poetical [v.r. poetytycall] be shewed.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 44 Whiche auctors do rather by a lycence poetycall.

1555 R. Braham in Lydgate's Auncient Hist. Warres betwixte Grecians & Troyans To Rdr. Breakynge out..into theyr poetycall fictions.

1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 168 b It is manifest that it is altogether poeticall and fabulous.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. viii. 42 This Poet being full of poeticall spyte and indignation.

a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) v. 54 He found many reasons to make question whether it would prove Poetical, or reall on their part.

1654 J. Trapp Comm. Job xxxviii. 19 These are Poetical terms likewise.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 126 Plato, who first banished Poets his Republic, forgot that that very Commonwealth was poetical.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 26. ¶4 In the poetical Quarter [of Westminster Abbey], I found there were Poets that had no Monuments, and Monuments that had no Poets.

1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 326 Poetical expression includes sound as well as meaning.

1828 Harrovian 155 He has frequently spoken of his poetical labours in no very con-amore terms.

1851 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) ii. 125 A new poetical philosophy.

1876 L. Stephen Hist. Eng. Thought 18th Cent. II. 350 Pope had at least two great poetical qualities. He was among the most keenly sensitive of men, and he had an almost unique felicity of expression.

1930 London Mercury 22 424 These great poetical prizes tend..to become the perquisites of conservative-minded and imperfectly contemporary writers.

1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Mar. 18/3 Significantly a ‘maker’, the Anglo-Scottish word for poet, suggests the poetical craft.

†b. Astronomy. Of the rising or setting of a star: occurring at or near sunrise or sunset. Cf. acronical adj., cosmical adj. 5, heliacal adj. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > star > stellar motion > [adjective] > fixed

poetical1594

inerrant1652

inerratic1662

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xxxv. f. 166 The Poeticall rising is the appearing of some starre aboue the Horizon, determined by the sunne.

1698 G. Sinclair Princ. Astron. & Navigation 46 Of this Poetical Rising and Setting, there are three forms.

1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) at Achronychal The Achronychal is one of the three poetical risings, and settings of the stars; and stands distinguished from Cosmical and Heliacal.

1787 J. Richardson Key to Geogr. vi. 155 Stars that are seen in the Eastern Horizon, a little before Sunrise, rise heliacally: and those that are seen in the Western Horizon a little after Sun-setting, set heliacally; called the poetical Rising and Setting, because mentioned frequently by the ancient Poets.

a. Having the style or character proper to poetry; = poetic adj. 3b.In modern use sometimes depreciative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [adjective] > pleasing to the aesthetic sense

gentc1300

sweet?a1366

comelyc1400

pretty1442

poetical1447

beautifula1586

concinnous1662

poetic1731

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adjective]

poetical1447

Parnassian1565

Pegasean1590

Hippocrenian1607

Dircaean1730

poetic1731

1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 84 (MED) The forme of procedyng artificyal Is in no wyse ner poetycal.

a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) i. xvi. 59 In a Poetical strain and composure.

1685 J. Dryden Sylvæ Pref. sig. A6 The nearest, the most Poetical..of any Translation of the Æneids.

1717 A. Pope Corr. (1956) I. 439 The poetical manner in which you paint some of the Scenes about you.

1747 T. Gray Let. 30 Nov. in Corr. (1971) I. 293 Have you seen Lyttleton's Monody on his Wife's Death? there are parts of it too stiff & poetical; but others truly tender & elegiac.

1815 J. G. Spurzheim Physiognom. Syst. viii. 417 Some authors write in prose, and their expressions are really poetical.

1868 Morning Star 25 Feb. She combines the real with the poetical in that degree which assuredly marks the true artist.

1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xv. 149 I'm sure I could have found something more poetical than plain Birch Path.

2000 Opera Now Jan. 45/2 Serban promised us a poetical journey through the Prologue.

b. Consisting of or written in verse; = poetic adj. 3a.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adjective] > written in verse or versified

in versec1315

poetical?a1450

poetic1656

versicular1812

versified1841

versical1854

versed1890

?a1450 ( J. Lydgate Serpent of Division (McClean) (1911) 54 (MED) Lucan rehersith in his poeticall boke þat the denyenge of þis worschip to þis Iulius was chefe grownde and occasion of all þe werre.

c1460 J. Lydgate in Minor Poems (1911) i. 72 (MED) Ther be songis of palmys transitorye, With corious meetrys that be poetical.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) x. 64 Quhou beit that the said poietical beuk be dytit oratourly.

1599 J. Rainoldes Overthrow Stage-playes 122 Teach them to resemble the panges of loue in maner of most amorous Nymphes, with burning exclamations, and fansies of Poeticall fables.

1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 8 Some Poeticall descriptions of our auncient Poets.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 187 Alas, I tooke great paines to studie it, and 'tis Poeticall .

1640 Whole Bk. Psalmes: ‘Bay Psalm Bk.’ sig. **(2) The psalmes are penned in such verses as are sutable to the poetry of the hebrew language, and not in the common style of such other bookes of the old Testament as are not poeticall.

1710 J. Swift Let. 10 Oct. (1768) IV. 44 I am now writing my poetical Description of a Shower in London, and will send it to the Tatler.

1779 S. Johnson Dryden in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets III. 193 The affluence and comprehension of our language is..displayed in our poetical translations of Ancient Writers.

1855 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) i. 99 A poetical monument to a personal friend.

1930 W. de la Mare Eighteen-Eighties 236 He invented..poetical acrostics and the nyctograph.

1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Dec. 35/1 Bayard Taylor's poetical translation of Faust.

3. That is a poet; having the sensibility of a poet; = poetic adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [adjective] > having character of poet

poetical1548

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [adjective]

poetica1634

poetical1662

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xlij This poeticall schoolemayster corrector of breues and longes.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 86^v The misticall wise menne, and Poeticall Clerkes, will speake nothyng but quaint prouerbes.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. E1^v The Historian, bound to tell things as things were, cannot be liberall (without hee will be poeticall) of a perfect patterne.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 13 Truly, I would the Gods hadde made thee poeticall .

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 129 Ouid is more Poeticall then Virgil.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. iv. §1 That their first writers were Poetical, and apparently fabulous.

1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) No. 7. 65 He was a thousand Times recommended by his Poetical Friends to great Persons.

1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. i. 2 And this is most remarkable in proportion as he is a poetical poet—a high lover of fiction.

1898 G. Saintsbury Short Hist. Eng. Lit. viii. iii. 524 Its..romantic attractions..appeal even to a person so little poetical as Hobbes.

1953 R. Davies in Saturday Night 28 Mar. 23/1 He was certainly an oddity in the philosophical world, as much detested by William James, the radical empiricist, as by the Jesuit who called him ‘the poetical atheist’.

1989 Times (Nexis) 10 Dec. A handful of dedications to poetical friends, including Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, John Berryman and Hugh MacDiarmid.

1997 New Yorker 28 Apr. 90/1 The ad half satirizes, half celebrates an entrenched Anglo-Saxon view of the French as poetical moodsters.

†4. Relating to composition or creativity; = poetic adj. 6. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > creative genius > [adjective]

poetical1597

imaginative1829

poetic1872

creative1874

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. ¶^v The second may be called Syntactical, Poetical, or effectiue.

†5. Occupied with or fond of poetry; = poetic adj. 4. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adjective] > relating to or fond of poetry

poetica1704

poetical1781

1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 10 Dryden's Fables..were much in the hands of poetical readers.

1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes II. vi. 110 She was seemingly poetical, and he offered her a choice of two editions of the British poets.

6. Affording a subject for poetry, worthy to be celebrated in poetry; = poetic adj. 5.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adjective] > celebrated in poetry

poetic1742

poetical1786

1786 H. Cowley School for Greybeards iii. ii. 38 ‘This soft recess’ would be at least more poetical my dear, with a handsome young man in it.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine iii To paint such thieves as they are: not dandy, poetical, rose-water thieves; but real downright scoundrels.

1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein II. 364 A man may also be poetical in the sense of being a good subject for poetry... In this sense, Stein was eminently a poetical person.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 337 Often she wondered why you couldn't eat something poetical like violets or roses.

2003 Financial Times (Nexis) 12 Apr. 14 He prefers a more poetical view of the building and thrills at the way the aluminium-clad edifice glows at sunrise.

Compounds

poetical justice n. the ideal justice in distribution of rewards and punishments supposed to be appropriate in a poem or other work of imagination; (now also more generally) the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions, poetic justice.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > maintenance of right by reward or punishment > specific

communicative justicea1513

commutative justice1531

corrective justice1531

distributive justice1531

retributive justice1619

expletive justice1652

expletory justice1654

poetical justice1678

poetic justice1691

retributivism1954

the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > retaliation or retribution

yieldinga1340

talion1412

retributiona1425

recompensec1425

recompensationa1513

requitement1548

retaliation1581

lex talionis1597

requital1597

retaling1597

taliationa1601

law of retalion1607

talio1611

retail1615

retorsion1637

repercussion1641

retributing1645

reddition1656

retortion1762

poetical justice1796

utu1828

retort1836

quits1865

poetic justice1991

1678 T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 26 Though historical Iustice might rest there; yet poetical Iustice could not be so content. It would require that the satisfaction be compleat and full, e're the Malefactor goes off the Stage.

1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida Pref. sig. a2^v We are glad when we behold his crimes are punish'd, and that Poetical justice is done upon him.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 93. ⁋6 Addison is suspected to have denied the expediency of poetical justice because his own Cato was condemned to perish in a good cause [cf. Spectator No. 40].

1796 M. Wollstonecraft Lett. Sweden, Norway & Denmark xix. 210 It seems even a sort of poetical justice, that whilst this minister is crushing at home, plots of his own conjuring up, that on the continent..he should..be accused of wishing to set the world on fire.

1832 T. S. Fay Crayon Sketches II. 109 Dramatic authors..sacrificing both probability and possibility in their zeal to mete out poetical justice to the misbehaved persons of the drama.

1882 Cent. Mag. Mar. 667/1 There was a species of poetical justice in the rude manner in which their eyes were opened to the real facts of the case.

1921 W. Allison Alias Richard Power xxxii. 321 As for Lyons, the detective assured the girl that poetical justice would overtake him.

2010 Daily Tel. 9 Dec. (Features section) 29 It had been quite in order to impose poetical justice on the play.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	poetical
释义	poeticaladj. Brit. /pəʊˈɛtᵻkl/, U.S. /poʊˈɛdək(ə)l/ Forms: late Middle English poetichall, late Middle English poetycal, late Middle English poetytycall (transmission error), late Middle English–1600s poeticall, late Middle English– poetical, 1500s poëticall, 1500s poetycall; Scottish pre-1700 poeticall, pre-1700 poietical, pre-1700 1700s– poetical. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin poēticus , -al suffix¹. Etymology: < classical Latin poēticus poetic adj. + -al suffix¹; compare -ical suffix. Compare Middle French poetical (1478). Compare later poetic adj. 1. a. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of poets or poetry; = poetic adj. 1.In early use sometimes: †fictitious, imaginary (obsolete).poetical justice: see justice n. 1. poetical licence: see licence n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [adjective] > belonging to or befitting poet(s) poetical?a1425 poetic1490 poetlyc1500 bard-like1763 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [adjective] > characteristic of poet(s) poetical1585 ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. pr. i. 47 She saugh thise poetical [L. poeticus] Muses aprochen aboute my bed and enditynge wordes to my wepynges. c1425 [implied in: J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) Prol. 299 (MED) Ovide also poetycally hath closyd Falshede with trouthe. (at poetically adv. 1)]. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 1095 Here art poetical [v.r. poetytycall] be shewed. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 44 Whiche auctors do rather by a lycence poetycall. 1555 R. Braham in Lydgate's Auncient Hist. Warres betwixte Grecians & Troyans To Rdr. Breakynge out..into theyr poetycall fictions. 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 168 b It is manifest that it is altogether poeticall and fabulous. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. viii. 42 This Poet being full of poeticall spyte and indignation. a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) v. 54 He found many reasons to make question whether it would prove Poetical, or reall on their part. 1654 J. Trapp Comm. Job xxxviii. 19 These are Poetical terms likewise. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 126 Plato, who first banished Poets his Republic, forgot that that very Commonwealth was poetical. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 26. ¶4 In the poetical Quarter [of Westminster Abbey], I found there were Poets that had no Monuments, and Monuments that had no Poets. 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 326 Poetical expression includes sound as well as meaning. 1828 Harrovian 155 He has frequently spoken of his poetical labours in no very con-amore terms. 1851 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) ii. 125 A new poetical philosophy. 1876 L. Stephen Hist. Eng. Thought 18th Cent. II. 350 Pope had at least two great poetical qualities. He was among the most keenly sensitive of men, and he had an almost unique felicity of expression. 1930 London Mercury 22 424 These great poetical prizes tend..to become the perquisites of conservative-minded and imperfectly contemporary writers. 1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Mar. 18/3 Significantly a ‘maker’, the Anglo-Scottish word for poet, suggests the poetical craft. †b. Astronomy. Of the rising or setting of a star: occurring at or near sunrise or sunset. Cf. acronical adj., cosmical adj. 5, heliacal adj. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > star > stellar motion > [adjective] > fixed poetical1594 inerrant1652 inerratic1662 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xxxv. f. 166 The Poeticall rising is the appearing of some starre aboue the Horizon, determined by the sunne. 1698 G. Sinclair Princ. Astron. & Navigation 46 Of this Poetical Rising and Setting, there are three forms. 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) at Achronychal The Achronychal is one of the three poetical risings, and settings of the stars; and stands distinguished from Cosmical and Heliacal. 1787 J. Richardson Key to Geogr. vi. 155 Stars that are seen in the Eastern Horizon, a little before Sunrise, rise heliacally: and those that are seen in the Western Horizon a little after Sun-setting, set heliacally; called the poetical Rising and Setting, because mentioned frequently by the ancient Poets. 2. a. Having the style or character proper to poetry; = poetic adj. 3b.In modern use sometimes depreciative. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [adjective] > pleasing to the aesthetic sense gentc1300 sweet?a1366 comelyc1400 pretty1442 poetical1447 beautifula1586 concinnous1662 poetic1731 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adjective] poetical1447 Parnassian1565 Pegasean1590 Hippocrenian1607 Dircaean1730 poetic1731 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 84 (MED) The forme of procedyng artificyal Is in no wyse ner poetycal. a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) i. xvi. 59 In a Poetical strain and composure. 1685 J. Dryden Sylvæ Pref. sig. A6 The nearest, the most Poetical..of any Translation of the Æneids. 1717 A. Pope Corr. (1956) I. 439 The poetical manner in which you paint some of the Scenes about you. 1747 T. Gray Let. 30 Nov. in Corr. (1971) I. 293 Have you seen Lyttleton's Monody on his Wife's Death? there are parts of it too stiff & poetical; but others truly tender & elegiac. 1815 J. G. Spurzheim Physiognom. Syst. viii. 417 Some authors write in prose, and their expressions are really poetical. 1868 Morning Star 25 Feb. She combines the real with the poetical in that degree which assuredly marks the true artist. 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xv. 149 I'm sure I could have found something more poetical than plain Birch Path. 2000 Opera Now Jan. 45/2 Serban promised us a poetical journey through the Prologue. b. Consisting of or written in verse; = poetic adj. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adjective] > written in verse or versified in versec1315 poetical?a1450 poetic1656 versicular1812 versified1841 versical1854 versed1890 ?a1450 ( J. Lydgate Serpent of Division (McClean) (1911) 54 (MED) Lucan rehersith in his poeticall boke þat the denyenge of þis worschip to þis Iulius was chefe grownde and occasion of all þe werre. c1460 J. Lydgate in Minor Poems (1911) i. 72 (MED) Ther be songis of palmys transitorye, With corious meetrys that be poetical. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) x. 64 Quhou beit that the said poietical beuk be dytit oratourly. 1599 J. Rainoldes Overthrow Stage-playes 122 Teach them to resemble the panges of loue in maner of most amorous Nymphes, with burning exclamations, and fansies of Poeticall fables. 1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 8 Some Poeticall descriptions of our auncient Poets. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 187 Alas, I tooke great paines to studie it, and 'tis Poeticall . View more context for this quotation 1640 Whole Bk. Psalmes: ‘Bay Psalm Bk.’ sig. *(2) The psalmes are penned in such verses as are sutable to the poetry of the hebrew language, and not in the common style of such other bookes of the old Testament as are not poeticall. 1710 J. Swift Let.* 10 Oct. (1768) IV. 44 I am now writing my poetical Description of a Shower in London, and will send it to the Tatler. 1779 S. Johnson Dryden in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets III. 193 The affluence and comprehension of our language is..displayed in our poetical translations of Ancient Writers. 1855 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) i. 99 A poetical monument to a personal friend. 1930 W. de la Mare Eighteen-Eighties 236 He invented..poetical acrostics and the nyctograph. 1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Dec. 35/1 Bayard Taylor's poetical translation of Faust. 3. That is a poet; having the sensibility of a poet; = poetic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [adjective] > having character of poet poetical1548 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [adjective] poetica1634 poetical1662 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xlij This poeticall schoolemayster corrector of breues and longes. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 86^v The misticall wise menne, and Poeticall Clerkes, will speake nothyng but quaint prouerbes. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. E1^v The Historian, bound to tell things as things were, cannot be liberall (without hee will be poeticall) of a perfect patterne. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 13 Truly, I would the Gods hadde made thee poeticall . View more context for this quotation 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 129 Ouid is more Poeticall then Virgil. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. iv. §1 That their first writers were Poetical, and apparently fabulous. 1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) No. 7. 65 He was a thousand Times recommended by his Poetical Friends to great Persons. 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. i. 2 And this is most remarkable in proportion as he is a poetical poet—a high lover of fiction. 1898 G. Saintsbury Short Hist. Eng. Lit. viii. iii. 524 Its..romantic attractions..appeal even to a person so little poetical as Hobbes. 1953 R. Davies in Saturday Night 28 Mar. 23/1 He was certainly an oddity in the philosophical world, as much detested by William James, the radical empiricist, as by the Jesuit who called him ‘the poetical atheist’. 1989 Times (Nexis) 10 Dec. A handful of dedications to poetical friends, including Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, John Berryman and Hugh MacDiarmid. 1997 New Yorker 28 Apr. 90/1 The ad half satirizes, half celebrates an entrenched Anglo-Saxon view of the French as poetical moodsters. †4. Relating to composition or creativity; = poetic adj. 6. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > creative genius > [adjective] poetical1597 imaginative1829 poetic1872 creative1874 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. ¶^v The second may be called Syntactical, Poetical, or effectiue. †5. Occupied with or fond of poetry; = poetic adj. 4. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adjective] > relating to or fond of poetry poetica1704 poetical1781 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 10 Dryden's Fables..were much in the hands of poetical readers. 1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes II. vi. 110 She was seemingly poetical, and he offered her a choice of two editions of the British poets. 6. Affording a subject for poetry, worthy to be celebrated in poetry; = poetic adj. 5. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adjective] > celebrated in poetry poetic1742 poetical1786 1786 H. Cowley School for Greybeards iii. ii. 38 ‘This soft recess’ would be at least more poetical my dear, with a handsome young man in it. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine iii To paint such thieves as they are: not dandy, poetical, rose-water thieves; but real downright scoundrels. 1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein II. 364 A man may also be poetical in the sense of being a good subject for poetry... In this sense, Stein was eminently a poetical person. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 337 Often she wondered why you couldn't eat something poetical like violets or roses. 2003 Financial Times (Nexis) 12 Apr. 14 He prefers a more poetical view of the building and thrills at the way the aluminium-clad edifice glows at sunrise. Compounds poetical justice n. the ideal justice in distribution of rewards and punishments supposed to be appropriate in a poem or other work of imagination; (now also more generally) the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions, poetic justice. ΘΚΠ society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > maintenance of right by reward or punishment > specific communicative justicea1513 commutative justice1531 corrective justice1531 distributive justice1531 retributive justice1619 expletive justice1652 expletory justice1654 poetical justice1678 poetic justice1691 retributivism1954 the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > retaliation or retribution yieldinga1340 talion1412 retributiona1425 recompensec1425 recompensationa1513 requitement1548 retaliation1581 lex talionis1597 requital1597 retaling1597 taliationa1601 law of retalion1607 talio1611 retail1615 retorsion1637 repercussion1641 retributing1645 reddition1656 retortion1762 poetical justice1796 utu1828 retort1836 quits1865 poetic justice1991 1678 T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 26 Though historical Iustice might rest there; yet poetical Iustice could not be so content. It would require that the satisfaction be compleat and full, e're the Malefactor goes off the Stage. 1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida Pref. sig. a2^v We are glad when we behold his crimes are punish'd, and that Poetical justice is done upon him. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 93. ⁋6 Addison is suspected to have denied the expediency of poetical justice because his own Cato was condemned to perish in a good cause [cf. Spectator No. 40]. 1796 M. Wollstonecraft Lett. Sweden, Norway & Denmark xix. 210 It seems even a sort of poetical justice, that whilst this minister is crushing at home, plots of his own conjuring up, that on the continent..he should..be accused of wishing to set the world on fire. 1832 T. S. Fay Crayon Sketches II. 109 Dramatic authors..sacrificing both probability and possibility in their zeal to mete out poetical justice to the misbehaved persons of the drama. 1882 Cent. Mag. Mar. 667/1 There was a species of poetical justice in the rude manner in which their eyes were opened to the real facts of the case. 1921 W. Allison Alias Richard Power xxxii. 321 As for Lyons, the detective assured the girl that poetical justice would overtake him. 2010 Daily Tel. 9 Dec. (Features section) 29 It had been quite in order to impose poetical justice on the play. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.?a1425
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