domestical

English

Alternative forms

• domesticall

Etymology

From Latin domesticus +‎ -al.

Adjective

domestical (comparative more domestical, superlative most domestical)

1. (archaic) Domestic.
   • 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, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 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[entine] 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

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

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “domestical”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• mislocated