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finical, a.|ˈfɪnɪkəl|
[Connected with finick v., finicking; as finical is the earliest recorded, it may be the source of the other words; in any case ultimate derivation from fine a. seems probable.]
Of persons, their actions and attributes: Over-nice or particular, affectedly fastidious, excessively punctilious or precise, in speech, dress, manners, methods of work, etc. Also of things: Over-scrupulously finished; excessively or affectedly fine or delicate in workmanship.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 10 b, She is so finicall in her speach. 1607R. C. World of Wonders 50 Women gorgeously apparelled, finicall and fine as fippence. 1650Howell Ep. Ho-El. I. i. i, Expressions made up of a bombast of words and finical affected complements. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. To Rdr. 11 More trim and elegant fancies, who are so nice and finical that they would not come near a sore. 1709Steele Tatler No. 82 §6 Your open Sleeves..made a much better Show than the finnikal Dress I am in. 1727Pope, etc. Art of Sinking 111 The Finical Style..consists of the most curious, affected, mincing metaphors. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) II. ii. 11 Lord G. seems a little too finical in his dress. 1820Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life II. v. 119 Such a pretty, little, delicate, ladylike, finical gentleman! 1840Thackeray Crit. Rev. Wks. 1886 XXIII. 167 It might be painted with a good deal less finical trifling with the pencil. 1887Saintsbury Hist. Elizab. Lit. v. (1890) 189 The finical scholarship of the present day.
absol.a1845Hood Compass xxii, Fear quitted the most finical.
Hence † ˈfinical v. trans., nonce-wd. to dress or ‘get (oneself) up’. ˈfinically adv., in a finical manner, affectedly, fastidiously. ˈfinicalness, (a) the quality of being finical; (b) a finical thing, a refinement. finiˈcality, (a) finical quality; (b) something finical.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 15, I was ordained Gods scourge from aboue for their daintie finicalitie. 1659Torriano, Stringáto..finicaly drest up. 1670Covel Diary (1893) 261 We had no such finicallnesse as knives or forkes, onely..our hands and teeth. 1682A. Behn False Count i. ii. 20 You think yourself a very fine fellow now, and finical yourself up to be thought so. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) V. 206 His works have no more merit than finicalness..can give them. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) I. iv. 372 Finically attentive to dress. 1816J. Gilchrist Philos. Etym. 217 [He] would arrest the press to alter a comma; yet with all this fingering finicalness, has not left a single well-constructed paragraph in his whole writings! 1819Sporting Mag. V. 60 After sipping with all the finicallity of spinsterian consequence her sixth cup of the enlivening liquid. 1826Blackw. Mag. XIX. 655 To cut joints..neither in slices too thick, nor in such as are finically thin. 1884J. Payn Lit. Recoll. 256 He..sometimes exhibited a whimsical finicality. |