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majestical, a. Now chiefly poet.|məˈdʒɛstɪkəl|
[Formed as majestic a.: see -ical.]
1. = majestic.
a. Of persons, their attributes, etc. (occas. ironical).
1589Horsey Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) App. 295 Kynore [? read Kyuore = cover] my good lord, with thy princely wisdome and majestyecall clemency this unwillinge faulte comytted. 1593Nashe Christ's T. Ded. 2 All those maiesticall wit forestalling worthies of your sexe. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 99 His person and carriage was most comely, and (if I may use the word) Maiesticall. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. i. (1682) 207 Their gate is..very stately and majestical. 1663Cowley Ess., Greatness (1688) 121 If I were ever to fall in love again..it would be, I think, with Prettiness, rather than with Majestical Beauty. 1781Justamond Priv. Life Lewis XV, II. 214 His entrance..was splendid and majestical. 1821Byron Sardan. ii. i. 532 His marble face majestical Frowns. 1866J. H. Newman Gerontius iv. 30 And therefore is it, in respect of man, Those fallen ones show so majestical. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. iv. 101 A grave and majestical countenance.
b. Of things material and immaterial.
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 161 What can we beholde more noble then the world..? what more maiesticall to the sight, or more constant in substance? a1586Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 65 Theyr Playes..thrust in Clownes by head and shoulders, to play a part in maiesticall matters. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii. iv. (1651) 17 Suppose you were now brought into some..Majestical Palace. 1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. ii. xi. (1739) 58 War is ever terrible, but if just and well governed, majestical. 1693Dryden Ess., Orig. Satire (ed. Ker) II. 107 The first six lines of the stanza seem majestical and severe. 1851Longfellow Gold. Leg. v. Inn at Genoa 4 It is the sea,..Silent, majestical and slow. 1867M. Arnold Celtic Lit. 61 An older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical.
†2. = majestatic. Obs.
1581E. Campion in Confer. iii. (1584) R ij, S. Augustine excludeth not by maiestical presence al bodily presence. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lv. §6 If his Maiesticall body haue now any such new property. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, O. T. 291 It pleased the Lord to represent unto me a cleare signe of the majesticall presence of the Sonne of God, sitting on high, upon a glorious throne. a1638Mede Wks. (1672) 639 The proper place where the Majestical Glory is revealed, is the Heavens. 1675Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 526 The presence of God with his people is very majestical. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1682) 257 [Heaven] 'Tis the Court of his Majestical presence.
Hence † maˈjesticalness, majesty.
1613Decl. Arriv. C. Haga at Constantinople 14 The Maiesticalnesse of Our Royall and Princely State. 1652Kirkman Clerio & Lozia 78 This splendid greatness of a maid surpassed the magesticalness of the purest French Lillies of King Henry the third. 1727Bailey vol. II. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 19 Apr. 1/3 The majesticalness of this master-work of human genius and human sorrows. |