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

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  1.  Situated at or in the center or middle; central; = CENTRIC 1.

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1741.  Monro, Anat. Nerves (ed. 3), 42. In the Centrical Part of the optic Nerve.

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1768.  Whitefield, Let. Gov. Wright, 27. The late addition of the two Floridas renders Georgia more centrical.

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1803.  Wellington, Lett., in Gurw., Disp., II. 208. To leave the infantry in a centrical situation.

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1864.  Guthrie, in Gd. Words, 510. Situated in a centrical part of the town.

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  fig.  a. 1659.  Osborn, Ess., iii. (1673), 566. It is not unlikely to have been the Primary and Centrical Sin.

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  2.  Of or pertaining to a center.

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1837.  Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sc., II. VI. ii. § 2. 30. A certain extension of the centrical medium.

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1876.  F. Brodie, in G. Chambers, Astron., 325. The second centrical envelope [of the comet] just embraced both these eccentric envelopes.

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