apoˈplectical, a. arch.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
1. = apoplectic 1.
| 1656 Blount Glossogr., Apoplectical, pertaining to the apoplexy. 1668 Lond. Gaz. ccxxvii/2 Dangerously ill of an Apoplectical distemper. 1779 Johnson in Boswell (1816) III. 455 Mr. Thrale has been in extreme danger from an apoplectical disorder. |
2. = apoplectic 2.
| 1615 Crooke Body of Man 500 Such men as dye Apoplecticall. 1739 Baddam Mem. R. Soc. 140 The one, lame of the gout; the other, extremely appoplectical. |
3. = apoplectic 3.
| 1721 Bailey, Apoplectical..good against Apoplexy. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Apoplectical medicines, a name used by some for what we more properly call antapoplectics. |