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† moˈsaical, a.1 Obs.
Also 6 museacall, 7 musaicall.
[Formed as mosaic a.1 + -ical.]
= mosaic a.1 Also mosaical work = mosaic work.
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. (1622) 7 New beds of flowers, which being vnder the trees, the trees were to them a Pauillion, and they to the trees a Mosaicall floore. 1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 49 b, Little flying Byrdes, excellently imphrygiated of museacall paynting. 1604Parsons 3rd Pt. Three Convers. Eng. 346 One Ricimerus..had adorned that Church with diuers sacred pictures of Christ and his Apostles in Musaicall worke. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 457 The Mosaicall floore pouldred with pearles. 1632Lithgow Trav. ix. 401 A delicate Roome, and Artificially decored with Mosaical Worke. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 203 We went into the Church, which is..full of the pictures of the Saints, after the Mosaical way, and paved also in that manner. |