georgicaladj.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies i. 79 Looke into..the Georgical, Meteorologicall & Astrological prognostications of good husbandmen.

1660 R. Burney Κέρδιστον Δῶρον 42 Men wil sweat upon certain ground in georgical affairs, and venture themselves upon uncertain ground in warlike exploits.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. vii. 255 A Question scarce started before..amongst the Philosophers, or Georgical writers.

1769 A. Hunter (title) Georgical essays.

1792 A. Young Trav. France 304 My library abounds more with French georgical authors..than any other I have had the opportunity to examine.

1824 G. Chalmers Caledonia III. v. §7. 475 Such was the georgical state of Ayrshire.

1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 32 174 Next follows the Georgical part of the Works.

1894 Ice & Refrigeration July 31/1 Such disinterested neighborliness is touching in its georgical simplicity.

1918 S. Atlantic Q. 17 222 The British Settlements of Dr. Douglass of Scotland and Boston is illuminating for the georgical America of 1750.

1973 J. Sambrook William Cobbett ix. 192 Cobbett, like countless generations of georgical writers before him, glorified agricultural labour in its hardihood, innocence and usefulness.

1990 T. S. Feldman in T. Frängsmyr et al. Quantifying Spirit in 18th Cent. v. 160 The observations, more georgical than meteorological, included detailed topographical descriptions, general monthly accounts of weather, [etc.].