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pyramidical, a. Now rare.|pɪrəˈmɪdɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
= pyramidal; in quot. 1628, enduring like a pyramid: cf. monumental 4.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii. iv. (1651) 18 [The heart] of a pyramidical forme, and not much unlike to a Pine-apple. 1628Feltham Resolves ii. lxxv, Though the Athenians demolished his Statues, yet they could not extinguish his more pyramidicall vertues. 1693[see pyramidal 3 a]. 1743Lond. & Country Brew. iv. (ed. 2) 322 They set six or eight Waggon Loads of Coal in a pyramidical Heap. 1867Baker Nile Tribut. xv. (1872) 270 The pyramidical hill beneath which I had fixed our camp. 1895Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 8/2 After the Switchback and the Great Wheel comes the Pyramidical Railway, which is being erected at the Devil's Dyke, near Brighton... The idea is to build a tower of varying height, round which a spiral track will carry a car from the top to the bottom. |