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† foˈrinsecal, a. Obs.
Also 6 forincy-, forynsicall, 6–7 forinsecall.
[f. as forinsec a. + -al1.]
= foreign a. in various senses; alien, extrinsic; in, pertaining to, or coming from another country.
1539T. Chapman in Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden Soc.) p. xvi, Not to follow the supersticious tradicions of ony foryncicall potentate or peere. c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camd. No. 29) I. 110 While they mayntained forinsecall battayles. 1658J. Robinson Eudoxa ii. 126 All salts, whether vitriol or allum, whose encrease is by apposition of forinsecall matter. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea Proem. B b, Who will say that this Act (under God) is not Englands safety from Forinsical Invasions? 1732Berkeley Alciphr. iii. vi, They disdain all forinsecal motives to it; and love Virtue only for Virtue's sake. |