a. ? Obs. Also (erron.) cholical. [f. as prec. + -AL.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 113. Colicall dolours.
1681. trans. Willis’ Rem. Med. Wks., II. xxvii. 170. The Colical grief doth belong to the infoldings of the Abdomen.
1721. Gay, in G. Colman’s Posth. Lett. (1820), 8. The Cholical humour in my stomach.
1765. Huxham, Sea Water, in Phil. Trans., LV. 8. I have known it bring on colical pains.
2. Subject to colic.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, II. xxxvii. (1632), 425. This chollicall kinde of life.
1672. Sir T. Browne, Lett. to Friend, iv. (1881), 129. Cholical persons will find little comfort in Austria.
