† orˈganical, a. Obs.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. Of music: Performed on an instrument, instrumental; = organic a. 2 c.
| 1521 J. T. in Bradshaw's St. Werburge Prol. 1 Honour, ioye, and glorie, the toynes organicall, Endeles myrthes w{supt} melodies! 1609 Douland Ornith. Microl. 2 Organicall Musicke (as Cælius writeth) is that which belongeth to artificiall Instruments. 1698 Stillingfl. Eccl. Cases 382 The use of organical musick in the publick service. 1700 Wallis in Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 317 Consorts of musick (vocal and organical). |
2. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, an instrument or machine; mechanical. (In quot. 1729 used specifically.)
| 1579–80 North Plutarch (1676) 261 To frame Instruments and Engines (which are called mechanicall, or organicall). 1729 G. Shelvocke Artillery v. 311 The Action or Motion of some of these [Machines] is Mechanical, and of others Organnical..the latter operate by the slight artful Touch of a single Person. |
b. = organic 2 b.
| 1726 E. Stone New Math. Dict., Organical Description of Curves, is the Description of them upon a Plane, by means of Instruments. [1819 in Rees Cycl.] |
3. Serving as an instrument, instrumental.
| 1605 Timme Quersit. i. v. 22 As organical and instrumental causes. 1649 Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. Disc. i. 37 It is not fitted with an instrument apt and organical to the faculty. 1668 Wilkins Real Char. 1 The third Part shall treat concerning such helps and Instruments, as are requisite,..which may therefore be stiled the Organical or Instrumental Part. 1681 Baxter Acc. Sherlocke vi. 210 The Pastors Office was made as the organical Office to make the rest; As Nature maketh the Heart and other noble organical parts, before the rest of the Body. |
b. Phys. Applied to parts of the body having particular functions: = organic a. 3. organical part = organ n.1 5.
| c 1450 Lydg. & Burgh Secrees 2543 Fle his presence, Which acomplysshed in membrys Organychall Is not. 1594 Mirr. Policy (1599) N ij, Eies (which are the organicall instruments of sight). 1659 Pearson Creed (1741) 277 The hands of man are those organical parts which are most active and executive of our power. 1707 Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 49 Plants have..some organical Parts, that are..like some..we may observe in Animals. 1733 Cheyne Eng. Malady i. x. §2 Is not every Animal a Machine of an infinite Number of organical Parts? [1819 Rees Cycl., Organical Part.] |
4. Furnished with or consisting of organs, physically organized, as an animal or plant body; pertaining to or having the characteristics of an organized being: = organic 4.
| 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 39 Organical, is called that which is a perfect body, having all the members and parts compleat belonging to the same. 1597 J. King On Jonas (1618) 624 The organicall body of a little Ant, is no lesse to bee wondred at, than the huge body of Behemoth. 1656 Stanley Hist. Philos. vi. (1701) 256/1 The Intellect is not confined to any part of the Body, as not being corporeal, nor organical, but immaterial and immortal. 1775 Reid Let. in Wks. I. 52/1 The result of such an organical structure as that of the brain. 1802 Eng. Encycl. VIII. 26/1 Our organical frame we call our body. |
b. Dealing with the ‘organic molecules’ of Spallanzani; dealing with organized bodies.
| 1770 Monthly Rev. 531 The organical or molecular hypothesis. 1837 Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. III. xvii. Introd. 378 The sciences which thus consider organization and vital functions may be termed organical sciences. |
5. Pertaining to the bodily organs; belonging to the bodily or mental constitution, constitutional.
| 1643 R. O. Man's Mort. vi. 49 In man it is some organicall deficiency..that is the cause, that some men are lesse rationall then others. 1669 Holder Elem. Speech 115 Deprived of Speech, not by any immediate Organical Indisposition. 1811 Edin. Rev. XVIII. 39 It is indeed much clearer that there is such an organical delight. [1819 Rees Cycl., Organical or Organic Diseases.] |
6. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, an organized structure; organized; structural; = organic 6.
| 1659 Baxter Key Cath. ii. iii. 427 He that is baptized into the Church, is baptized into an Organical body. 1674 Owen Holy Spirit (1693) 112 This various Distribution of Gifts makes the Church an Organical Body. 1786–1805 H. Tooke Purley (1829) I. Introd. 14 B. Where will you begin? H. Not with the organical part of language. 1802 Eng. Encycl., That [judgment] which considers nature as one vast organical structure. |
b. ? Making up the structure of something; constituent.
| 1794 G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. IV. xlix. 351 These particles then are the organical parts of water. |
7. organical vein: the jugular vein (cf. prec. 8).
| 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 223 The Organical vein of the neck, is the best letting of bloud, both in stoned and gelded Horses. |