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cupidical en · ADJ

Etymology

From Cupid + -ical.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Of or relating to erotic love.
   • 1770, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. K—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, p. 25, I don’t wonder the cricket-match yielded no amusement—all sport is dull, books unentertaining—Wisdom’s self but folly—to a mind under Cupidical influence.
   • […] the largest square or park in Cairo, the Esbekeyah […] where […] all kinds of intrigues, political, cupidical, and otherwise, are carried on. 1892 March, John E. Sundstrom, “Reminiscences of Travels in Egypt”, in Bulletin of the Geographical Society of California, published 1893, Volume 1, Part 1, p. 50:
   • 1620, John Florio (attributed translator), The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, London: Isaac Jaggard, Day 4, [p. 151b], […] the Friar hearing his Cupidicall visitations ouer-publikely discouered, purposed to check and reproue Lisetta for her indiscretion.

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