a. Obs. [f. prec. + -AL.]
1. Of foreign origin or growth; imported from abroad; = EXOTIC a. 1.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXII. xxiv. (1634), 137. We may both preserue and recover our health well enough without these exotical and forraine drugs.
1672. H. Dodwell, 2 Lett. of Advice (1691), 204. Most of them [certain canonized Heroes] are exotical (which is the reason of their strangeness in the Greek).
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 309. This Word, Ἀθηνᾶ … was not originally Greekish, but Exotical.
2. Of or pertaining to foreigners, or a foreign country; foreign; hence barbarous, outlandish, strange; = EXOTIC a. 2.
1608. Bp. Hall, Epist., I. viii. 81–2. How many … haue brought nothing from forraine Countries, but misshapen cloathes, or exoticall gestures…?
1641. ‘Smectymnuus,’ Vind. Answ., xvi. 207. Nor did we ever intend to affixe those exoticall positions of unsound teachers … upon her.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., III. 51. Of the same Colour and Complexion with some Sectary exotical Tenets.
Hence † Exotically adv., in an exotic, foreign or outlandish manner. † Exoticalness, the quality or state of being exotic.
1670–98. Lassels, Voy. Italy, II. 116. A great train of horsemen and trumpeters clad exotically.
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Exoticalness; whence in mod. Dicts.
