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octopusial en · ADJ

Etymology

From octopus + -ial.

Meanings

1. (rare) Octopoid; octopuslike.
   • We struggle out of octopusial darkness of agony and near defeat […] 2011, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, In Constant Incandescence / Poems, →ISBN, page 26:
   • We always did say that the octopusial arrangements that have tentacled nearly the whole of the city would constantly be giving trouble, in some form or another, and behold! we were right. 1879, Puck, page 450:
   • These politicians are convinced that if the big newspapers and periodicals of this country are compelled to print a list of their stockholders there will be an amazing display of Standard Oil and J. P. Morgan and Steel Trust and other octopusial ownership. 1912, The Saturday Evening Post, page 30:

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