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domestical

domestical adjective: domestic.

Adjective

domestical (comparative more domestical, superlative most domestical)

  1. (archaic) Domestic.
    • Our private and domestical matter.a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber...
    • It were a kind of treason to do so in our owne affaires and domesticall [translating domestiques] matters, wherein of necessity one must resolve and take a side; but for a man that hath neither charge nor expresse commandement to urge him, not to busie or entermedle himselfe therein, I holde it...1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter I, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Noun

domestical

  1. (archaic) A domestic; a household servant; a member of a household.

Forms of domestical

comparativemore domestical
superlativemost domestical
alternative formdomesticall

Origin of domestical

From Latin domesticus + -al.

Questions about domestical

What does domestical mean?
Domestical means domestic.
What part of speech is domestical?
Domestical can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near domestical in the dictionary

  1. domestic worker
  2. domestic workers
  3. domesticabilities
  4. domesticability
  5. domesticable
  6. domestical
  7. domesticalities
  8. domesticality
  9. domestically
  10. domesticant
  11. domesticants

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