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colical

colical adjective: resembling or relating to colic.

Adjective

colical (comparative more colical, superlative most colical)

  1. Resembling or relating to colic.
    • September 1 1733, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
      colical pains
  2. Subject to or suffering from colic.
    • I have already learn'd to apply my selfe unto it; and am now entring into covenant with this chollicall kinde of life; for therein I finde matter, wherewith to comfort me, and to hope better.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Forms of colical

comparativemore colical
superlativemost colical

Origin of colical

From colic + -al.

Questions about colical

What does colical mean?
Colical means resembling or relating to colic.
What part of speech is colical?
Colical is an adjective.

Words near colical in the dictionary

  1. colic
  2. colic valve
  3. colic valves
  4. colic weed
  5. colica pictonum
  6. colical
  7. colicense
  8. colicensed
  9. colicenses
  10. colicensing
  11. colichemarde

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