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lubrical

lubrical is the obsolete form of lubric.

Meaning of lubric

Adjective

lubric (comparative more lubric, superlative most lubric)

  1. (obsolete) Having a smooth surface; slippery.
    • No eel was ever more lubric.1859, Mary Jane Windle, Life in Washington: And Life Here and There, page 57
  2. (obsolete) Lascivious; wanton; lewd.
    • 17th c, John Dryden, Ode to Mrs Anne Killigrew, 2003, John Dryden: The Major Works, page 312,
      O wretched we! why were we hurried down / This lubric and adulterate age, / (Nay, added fat pollutions of our own) / To increase the steaming ordures of the stage?

Forms of lubrical

comparativemore lubrical
superlativemost lubrical

Questions about lubrical

What is lubrical the obsolete form of?
Lubrical is the obsolete form of lubric.

Words near lubrical in the dictionary

  1. lubras
  2. lubratoria
  3. lubratorium
  4. lubratoriums
  5. lubric
  6. lubrical
  7. lubricant
  8. lubricants
  9. lubricate
  10. lubricated
  11. lubricates

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