styptical, a. ? Obs.
(ˈstɪptɪkəl)
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
= styptic a.
| 1528 Paynell Salerne's Regim. Q iiij, Prunes that be nat rype be stypticall. 1612 Benvenuto's Passenger i. ii. 205 Let vs take something stiticall, without drinking therevpon, and those be Peares, Medlers, [etc.]. 1652 Hermeticall Banquet B 3, Aluminous and Pontick [Salts], which are Stegnoticall, Stypticall, and Corroborating the Retentive faculties. 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 165 Every body knows what stiptical qualities, always attend ferrugineous bodies. 1762 B. Stillingfleet tr. Beyerstein's Obst. to Impr. Physic in Misc. Tracts (1791) 215 Thus watery mixed with dry,..glutinous with stiptical,..mutually weaken each other. 1820 Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. I. 519 He has been observed to,..as if conscious of the styptical effect of cold, apply snow with his paws to the wound. |
Hence † ˈstypticalness, stypticity.
| 1528 Paynell Salerne's Regim. R ij, Medlars make one costife throughe their sowernes and stipticalnes. 1727 Bailey vol. II, Stipticalness, stiptick Quality, or Aptness to stop Blood, &c. |