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authentical

authentical adjective: authentic.

Adjective

authentical (comparative more authentical, superlative most authentical)

  1. (archaic) Authentic.
    • He graunted it: and streight his warrant made, / Under the Sea-gods seale autenticall[…].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • The curious and exact care he had of his body, is an authenticall witneſſe of it, forſomuch as hee vſed the moſt laſcivious meanes that then were in vſe, […]1603, Michel de Montaigne, “The History of Spurina”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 418

Forms of authentical

comparativemore authentical
superlativemost authentical

Origin of authentical

From Classical Latin authenticus + -al. By surface analysis, authentic + -al.

Words formed from authentical

Questions about authentical

What does authentical mean?
Authentical means authentic.
What part of speech is authentical?
Authentical is an adjective.

Words near authentical in the dictionary

  1. authentic cadence
  2. authentic cadences
  3. authentic learning
  4. authenticability
  5. authenticable
  6. authentical
  7. authentically
  8. authenticalness
  9. authenticatable
  10. authenticate
  11. authenticated

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