Germanicaladj.
/dʒəˈmanᵻkl/, U.S. /dʒərˈmænəkəl/ 1. = Germanic adj.1 1.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [adjective]
Germanic1539
German1548
Germanical1560
Almanie1564
Dutchkin1576
Teutonic1647
Almain1665
transrhenanea1727
Germanish1796
Hun1820
Dutchy1862
Kraut1911
Gretchen1913
Boche1914
Hunnish1915
Fritz1919
1560 Abp. E. Sandys Let. 24 Oct. in Abp. M. Parker Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 125 Ye will not utterly condemn all Germanical natures.
1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast iv. iv. f. 432 If the Church nowe of England be Catholike, then is the Saxonicall and Germanical Church hereticall.
1569 J. Leslie Def. Honour Marie Quene of Scotl. iii. f. 132 Diuers other partes of the Germanicall Empire.
1577 T. Rogers tr. S. à Geveren Of Ende of World f. 26 This Germanicall Empire, which rather ought to be termed a shadowe of the old Empire, than an image of the same.
1677 T. Harvey tr. J. Owen Epigrams i. 3 (heading) Germanical Truth.
1711 J. Strype Life M. Parker ii. iii. 78 He..spake of Germanical Natures, as tho' that Bishop, who had been an Exile in Germany,..had sucked in some Principles of Germany, more than were good.]
1803 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 816/2 The present pseudo-pretender to public favour is a gross impostor; a Frenchified Germanical emigrant.
1885 Jrnl. Educ. Dec. 468/1 It is very convenient to have thus offered, ready to hand, a simple and easy illustration of that Germanical theory which the late Professor Shairp rather unkindly designated as ‘the great Teutonic hoax’.
1959 N. Sykes From Sheldon to Secker (2004) i. 8 The Germanical exiles of the reign of Elizabeth I were favourers of the puritan clergy.
1999 L. D. Brodsky This Here's Merica 78 Guanomole dip 'n Frito-laid chips,..'n official Germanical-style potato salad.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > German
Dutch1480
German1536
Germanish1548
Germanical1577
1577 T. Rogers tr. S. à Geveren Of Ende of World f. 16 That old and common prophesie turned into Germanical Rhythmes by Iohn Stoffler, which also aboue nineteene yeeres agoe I haue heard recited by Melanthon.
1589 L. Wright Summons for Sleepers 38 An olde Prophecie recited by Melancthon, and translated out of Germanicall rime into Latin by Cyprian.
1833 Fraser's Mag. 7 602 Whose Germanical jabber Master Ben..put into English.
1890 J. Earle Eng. Prose vii. 306 In the annexed specimen of Germanical English, the phrase ‘of course’ sits very uneasily in its place.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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