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generical, a.|dʒɪˈnɛrɪkəl| [f. as prec. + -al1.] Belonging to, or having the character of, a genus; generic, general.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 27 Mappa mundi is describede in the firste boke of this werke, in the maner of a diuision genericalle in to a diuision specificalle [L. more divisi generis in species]. 1650Fuller Pisgah i. vii. 17 We must conceive such of them as are omitted to be implyed under the genericall name of Canaanites. 1680Baxter Answ. Stillingfl. xxiii. 35 The Generical Notion sure is not enough for the definition of each species. 1764Reid Inquiry iii. Wks. I. 116/1 A question, how all smells come to be considered as one genus, and all tastes as another? What is the generical distinction. 1843Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 270 Holding some rank in the world, besides the generical rank of fool. 1865Lecky Ration. (1878) II. 334 There was such an amazing, I might almost say generical, difference between those who were Christians and those who were not. Hence geˈnericalness. rare—1.
1708A. Collins Answ. Clarke's 3rd Def. 43 The Question..has no relation to the genericalness of the Objects on which we think, but to the genericalness of Thinking itself. |