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cupidical

cupidical adjective: of or relating to erotic love.

Adjective

cupidical (comparative more cupidical, superlative most cupidical)

  1. (obsolete) Of or relating to erotic love.
    • […] the Friar hearing his Cupidicall visitations ouer-publikely discouered, purposed to check and reproue Lisetta for her indiscretion.1620, John Florio (attributed translator), The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, London: Isaac Jaggard, Day 4, [p. 151b]
    • I don’t wonder the cricket-match yielded no amusement—all sport is dull, books unentertaining—Wisdom’s self but folly—to a mind under Cupidical influence.1770, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. K—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, p. 25

Forms of cupidical

comparativemore cupidical
superlativemost cupidical

Origin of cupidical

From Cupid + -ical.

Questions about cupidical

What does cupidical mean?
Cupidical means of or relating to erotic love.
What part of speech is cupidical?
Cupidical is an adjective.

Words near cupidical in the dictionary

  1. Cupid's dart
  2. Cupid's delight
  3. Cupid's Disease
  4. Cupid-like
  5. Cupidian
  6. cupidical
  7. Cupidinian
  8. cupidinous
  9. cupidinously
  10. cupidities
  11. cupidity

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