a. Also 9 Brahmenical, Braminical. [f. as prec. + -ICAL.] = prec.
1809. Wilford, Sacr. Isles, in Asiat. Res., IX. 71. Many Bráhmenical families.
1870. Max Müller, in Fraser’s Mag., April, 448. The Brahmanical body of religious doctrines.
1883. Seeley, Expans. Eng., 268. This date marks the moment when the monopoly begins to crumble away, when the brahminical period comes to an end and England prepares to pour the civilisation, Christianity and science of the West into India.
