hyperbolical, a.
(haɪpəˈbɒlɪkəl)
Also 5 iper-, 6 hiper-.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. Rhet. Of the nature of, involving, or using hyperbole; exaggerated, extravagant (in language or expression).
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 77 Alexander seythe that not to be trawthe, but after a locucion iperbolicalle. 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 43 Your infamous, shame⁓lesse, and reprochfull Hiperbolicall speach. 1581 Marbeck Bk. of Notes 196 An Hiperboricall loquution, of which Chrisostome is full. a 1661 Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 438 He is too hyperbolical in praising his own country. 1774 Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry iii. (1840) I. 113 A taste for hyperbolical description. 1820 Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 347 It embodies..all the pomp of action in all the vehemence of hyperbolical declamation. 1872 Geo. Eliot Middlem. xxii, I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes. |
† b. gen. Extravagant in character or behaviour; excessive, enormous. Obs.
| 1589 Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 61 Being all plunged wel⁓nigh in a speachlesse astonishment..Pleusidippus, not vsed to such hyperbolical spectators, broke off the silence by calling for his victualls. 1633 T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. v. (1810) 62 These hyperbolical demands, were..absolutely rejected. 1663 Cowley Verses & Ess., Greatness (1669) 121 This Hyperbolical Fop whom we stand amazed at. 1859 Geo. Eliot A. Bede ix, The gardener..was over head and ears in love with her, and had lately made unmistakeable avowals in luscious strawberries and hyperbolical peas. |
2. Geom. = hyperbolic 2.
| 1571 Digges Pantom. iv. Pref. T j a, Conoydall, Parabollical, Hyperbollical and Ellepseycal circumscribed and inscribed bodies. 1669 Wren in Phil. Trans. IV. 961 The Generation of an Hyperbolical Cylindroid demonstrated and the Application thereof for Grinding Hyperbolical Glasses. 1716 Douglass in Phil. Trans. XXIX. 535 The Figure of each Beak is truly Hyperbolical. 1822 J. Imison Sc. & Art II. 359 Either an elliptical conoid or a hyperbolical conoid. 1871 tr. Schellen's Spectr. Anal. §69. 413 Thus its path may be elliptical, hyperbolical, or parabolical. |