cupidical

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Cupid +‎ -ical.

Adjective[edit]

cupidical (comparative more cupidical, superlative most cupidical)

  1. (obsolete) Of or relating to erotic love.
    • 1620, John Florio (attributed translator), The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, London: Isaac Jaggard, Day 4, [p. 151b],[1]
      [] the Friar hearing his Cupidicall visitations ouer-publikely discouered, purposed to check and reproue Lisetta for her indiscretion.
    • 1770, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. K—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, p. 25,[2]
      I don’t wonder the cricket-match yielded no amusement—all sport is dull, books unentertaining—Wisdom’s self but folly—to a mind under Cupidical influence.
    • 1892 March, John E. Sundstrom, “Reminiscences of Travels in Egypt”, in Bulletin of the Geographical Society of California[3], published 1893, Volume 1, Part 1, p. 50:
      [] the largest square or park in Cairo, the Esbekeyah [] where [] all kinds of intrigues, political, cupidical, and otherwise, are carried on.