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English
Etymology
From Latin domesticus + -al.
Adjective
domestical (comparative more domestical, superlative most domestical)
- (archaic) Domestic.
a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. , London: for Henry Olney, , published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: , 1 April 1868, →OCLC:Our private and domestical matter.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter I, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book III, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC: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 more excusable […]
Noun
domestical
- (archaic) A domestic; a household servant; a member of a household.
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