authentical

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English

Etymology

From authentic +‎ -al.

Adjective

authentical (comparative more authentical, superlative most authentical)

(archaic) Authentic.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: ">…] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  He graunted it: and streight his warrant made, / Under the Sea-gods seale autenticall .
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 33, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:
  The curious and exact care he had of his body, is an authenticall witnesse of it, forsomuch as he used the most lascivious meanes that then were in use .
- 1609, Douay–Rheims Bible, title page:
  The Holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin.

Derived terms

References

“authentical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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