pneumaticaladj.n.

1609 J. Boys On Psalms xcviii. 4–6, in Wks. (1629) 36 All kind of musicke, Vocall..Chordall..Pneumaticall, With trumpets.

1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art 28 Amongst all these experiments pneumaticall, there is none more excellent than this of the Weather-Glass.

1660 R. Boyle (title) New experiments..touching the spring of the air..made..in a new pneumatical engine.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) An Organ is a Pneumatical Instrument.

1796 J. Imison School of Arts 141 This pneumatical instrument is an ingenious contrivance, which will drive a bullet with great violence, by means of condensed air.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 31 The thermometer is a chemical rather than a pneumatical instrument.

1850–2 D. Lardner Pop. Lect. Sci. & Art 194 By the aid of certain pneumatical engines..this may be experimentally established.

1935 F. Dannemann & A. Wolf Hist. Sci., Technology & Philos. 225 He [sc. Pascal] returns to this subject in the pneumatical sections of his larger work, where he explains how many familiar phenomena must be conceived as the effects of atmospheric pressure.

1993 Mining Mag. (Nexis) Feb. 54 Drilling and charging of the faces is achieved during day shift making use of conventional handheld pneumatical rockdrills.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §29 The Race and Period of all things, here above the Earth, is to extenuate and turn things to be more Pneumaticall and Rare.

1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 254 Fluids, whether Visible or Pneumatical.

1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. x. 424 Mr. Boyle..obtained a pneumatical fluid, answering his, then, only criterion of air.

1801 D. Stewart Outl. Moral Philos. (ed. 2) ii. 195 The pneumatical discoveries of modern chemistry.

1644 F. Quarles Whipper Whipt 1 Pneumaticall Fantasticks, have turnd their leaden apprehensions to Quick-silverd Zeale.

1678 R. Cudworth tr. M. Psellus in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 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.

1708 H. Dodwell Nat. Mortality Humane Souls 46 The Psychical Body must be cloathed up with a Pneumatical Body.

1741 in A. Grant Univ. Edinb. (1884) I. 273 Professor of Pneumatical and Ethical Philosophy.

1863 W. Howitt Hist. Supernatural 337 Plotinus, Porphyry, Philoponus, Hierocles, and others, all held this idea of the pneumatical, or spirituous body, not spiritual in the scriptural sense.

1868 Contemp. Rev. 7 599 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.

1891 tr. A. Sabatier Appostle 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.

1951 N. Goldhawk tr. M. Buber Two Types of Faith 123 The writer of St. John's Gospel understood the statements as an expression by Jesus of his pneumatical inscrutability.

2000 J. H. Rubin Other Side of Joy 91 Pneumatical exegesis of the Word devalued intellectualism, systematic theology, and rational discourse, and encouraged fervent emotionalism and the inward piety of a believer.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §98 The Spirits or Pneumaticalls, that are in all Tangible Bodies are scarce known.

1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 556 Mr. Boyle..published the use of the Baroscope..in his first Treatise of Pneumaticals.