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Wykehamical, a.|wɪˈkæmɪkəl|
Also 8–9 Wiccam-, 9 Wycchamical.
[f. as prec. + -al1. The form Wiccamical is ad. mod.L. Wiccamic-us.]
1. Of or pertaining to Winchester College, or the pupils or staff of this; = Wykehamist a.
1758C. Golding Def. Cond. Warden Winchester Coll. 38 He hath given the Electors Liberty to take a Person..from within the Wykehamical Societies. 1791Huddesford Salmag. 101 William of Wickham, a Song for the Wiccamical Anniversary. 1830W. L. Bowles Life Ken I. 18 Dulce Domum, the old Wykehamical song. Ibid. 23 The great object of Wykehamical hopes, New College. 1878H. C. Adams Wykehamica xxii. 397 In Wykehamical phrase, the Præfect..would..have ‘broken their necks’. 1901Athenæum 26 Jan. 105/3 If we were asked to select the typical Wykehamical epitaph.
2. That is or has been a pupil of, or connected with, Winchester College.
1844R. Palmer in Mem. (1896) I. 364, I printed them for private and anonymous circulation among my Wykehamical friends. 1878H. C. Adams Wykehamica xvii. 320 This oath is one of the things which the Wykehamical body ought to have abolished long ago. 1903Fearon in C. E. Osborne Fr. Dolling ix, He was rapidly adopted within the Wykehamical family, and was what the school would have called ‘a most patriotic Wykehamist’.
Hence Wykehamically adv.
1878H. C. Adams Wykehamica xxiii. 418 Chouse, ‘a shame’... Here the word has been Wykehamically diverted from its original meaning, viz. ‘to cheat’. |