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† sycoˈphantical, a. Obs.
[See prec. and -ical.]
1. Calumnious, slanderous.
a1566R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) E iij b, Either you talke of that is done, or by your Sicophanticall enuye, You pricke forth Dionisius the sooner, that Damon may die. 1587M. Grove Pelops & Hipp. (1878) 6 A railing rout of Sycophanticall brablers. 1644Prynne & Walker Fiennes's Trial 11 Colonell Fiennes..in a sycophanticall way alleadged, that we suspected the integrity of that Court.
2. Meanly flattering; basely obsequious.
1632Lithgow Trav. v. 217 Herod..eaten of wormes, after the Sycophanticall people called his..oration, the voyce of God. a1716South Serm. (1744) VIII. 192 They have..suffered themselves to be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. |