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piratical, a.|paɪˈrætɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to a pirate or piracy; of the nature of, characterized by, given to, or engaged in piracy; pirate-like.
1579–80Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 255 Thair piraticall and weikit deidis. 1622Bacon Holy War Wks. 1879 I. 528/1 The piratical war which was achieved by Pompey the Great. 1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 107 Capt. Sharp's Pyratical Voyage to the South Sea. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. x. I. 245 The gold which the Scandinavians had acquired in their pyratical adventures. 1836W. Irving Astoria III. 103 These would apprize their relatives, the piratical Sioux of the Missouri, of the approach of a band of white traders. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 365 The Moors established the piratical states of Algiers and Tunis.
b. fig. Given to literary piracy, etc.
1737Pope Lett. Pref., Errors of the press..multiply'd in so many repeated editions, by the Avarice and Negligence of pyratical Printers. 1759Dilworth Pope 87 The piratical Curl had..advertised the letters of Messieurs Prior and Addison. 1877Dowden Shaks. Prim. i. 12 Piratical publishers tried in some dishonest way to come at the manuscript.
2. Obtained by piracy; pirated; produced by literary piracy.
1565Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 336 Ony of the said piraticall gudis. Ibid. 337 Personis that avariciouslie ressettis the piraticall gudis. 1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Sayler 88 In hope to become sharer in a pyraticall treasure. 1838A. B. Granville Spas Germ. 245 Two legal editions—two piratical ones. |