a. [f. as prec. + -ICAL.]

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  † 1.  Of or pertaining to the padding of garments.

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1650.  Bulwer, Anthropomet., xix. 195. If they be not corpulent [they] counterfeit [it] by the bombastical dissimulation of their garments.

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  2.  = BOMBASTIC.

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1649.  Bulwer, Pathomyot., Pref. 7. Barbarismes … fit only for the bombasticall Anatomy of Paracelsus.

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1858.  Halpin, in Grosart’s Spenser (1882), III. Introd. 94. He was … pedantic and bombastical.

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