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heroical, a.|hɪˈrəʊɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
†1. = heroic a. 1. Obs. or arch.
1555Eden Decades To Rdr. (Arb.) 50 The heroical factes of the Spaniardes of these days deserue so greate prayse. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. Ded. A ij b, One person of the exquisitest judgement, Heroicallest Spirit. 1700Dryden Fables Ded. Wks. (Globe) 490 Though you have courage in a heroical degree. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. iii. 319 The Bulk of Mankind are at a Loss to believe the Possibility of very heroical, generous, pious Actions. 1803E. Hay Insurr. Wexf. Introd. 19 He manifested a most heroical disposition at the battles of Ross and Fooks's Mill. 1814Mrs. J. West Alicia de Lacy I. 83 She would imitate such heroical subjection of personal desires.
†b. Of persons: = heroic a. 1 b. Obs. or arch.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. iv. 59 His Mountaine Sire.. Saw his Heroicall Seed, and smil'd to see him Mangle the Worke of Nature. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 16 That Heroicall Woman, Elizabeth late Queene of England. 1654Trapp Comm. Ps. ii. 4 Luther, that Heroical Reformer, was Excommunicated by the Pope. 1743in Entick London (1766) 417 To the memory of this most heroical person. 1824Landor Imag. Conv. (1826) I. 390 Mezentius, the most heroical of all the characters in that poem.
†c. Grand, magnificent. Obs.
1577Harrison England ii. v. (1877) i. 116 Magnificent apparell both of stuffe and fashion exquisite and heroicall. 1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Heroicall, beseeming a noble man, or magnificent. 1683Evelyn Diary 16 June, Verrio's invention is admirable, his ordnance full and flowing, antique and heroical.
2. = heroic a. 2.
1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. Ded. (Arb.) 5 Howe excellently the Poet Homere had set forth his heroical factes. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. M.'s Wks. 1738 I. 519 The fourth sort he makes of such as reigned in the Heroical days. 1859Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 1 When we read the history of heroical times and heroical men. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxviii. 92 Altar of heroes Troy, Troy of heroical acts.
3. = heroic a. 3.
1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) p. lxvii, They count them poetes hye & heroicall. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 28 Xenophon..made therein [in Cyropædia] an absolute heroicall Poem. 1863Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. xvii. 416 This division of the play—the heroical—is conceived in the very highest spirit of chivalry.
†b. = heroic a. 3 b. Obs.
1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. i. viii. 17 a, Heroical meter is so called of the valiaunt dedes of armes of noble men that be contained in it. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 377 To write in heroicall Verses. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 30 He..handled the same Argument in Heroicall verse.
4. = heroic a. 5.
1770J. Baretti Journ. Lond. to Genoa II. lv. 287 These statues are of that size that sculptors call heroical. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 249 We have set up in our hearts a grand image of him endowed with wit..and enormous heroical stature. |