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Dorical

Dorical is the obsolete form of Doric.

Meaning of Doric

Adjective

Doric (comparative more Doric, superlative most Doric)

  1. Relating to one of the Greek orders of architecture, distinguished by its simplicity and solidity.
    • It is certainly my personal favourite, for it was by way of Hardwick’s great Doric arch that I first sampled the roar and clatter of London streets, the trip being a boyhood reward for achieving (unexpected) success in a school examination!1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703
  2. Of or pertaining to the dialect of Scots spoken in the northeast of Scotland, predominantly Morayshire and Aberdeen areas.
  3. Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek dialect group once spoken in the north-west of Greece.
  4. Synonym of Dorian; of or relating to the region of Doris in Asia Minor or the Dorians
    Synonyms:
    Dorian
  5. Belonging to a certain mode of Ancient Greek music, the Dorian mode.

See all 7 meanings of Doric

Forms of Dorical

comparativemore Dorical
superlativemost Dorical

Questions about Dorical

What is Dorical the obsolete form of?
Dorical is the obsolete form of Doric.

Words near Dorical in the dictionary

  1. Dorianmancers
  2. dorians
  3. Doric
  4. Doric Greek
  5. Doric order
  6. Dorical
  7. Doricism
  8. Doricisms
  9. Dorick
  10. dorid
  11. doridacean

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dorical (page history and authors); Doric (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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