a. [f. L. causidic-us pleader, counsel, (f. causa cause + -dicus saying, telling) + -AL.] Of or pertaining to a pleader of legal causes.
a. 1797. H. Walpole, Mem. Geo. III. (1845), I. xvi. 241. His foul tongue and causidical boldness … offered him as a proper tool to [the] Court.
1796. J. Anstey, Pleader’s Guide (1803), 86. A bold Causidical appearance.
1840. G. S. Faber, Christ’s Disc. Capernaum, Introd. 29. Causidical dexterity … employed … to make … the worse appear the better cause.
