schismatical
English
Etymology
From Latin schismaticus + -al.[1]
Adjective
schismatical (not comparable)
- Alternative form of schismatic.
- 1797, Edmund Burke, “Letter III.”, in A Third Letter to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France, London: […] F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […]; sold also by J[ohn] Hatchard, […], →OCLC, page 12:
- The Oppoſition inſiſted, that the victims were not fat nor fair enough to be offered on the altars of blaſphemed Regicide; and it was inferred from thence, that the ſacrifical miniſters, (who were a ſort of intruders in the worſhip of the new divinity) in their ſchiſmatical devotion had diſcovered more of hypocriſy than zeal.
Noun
schismatical (plural schismaticals)
- Alternative form of schismatic.
Related terms
References
- “schismatical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “schismatical, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.