a. [f. as prec. + -AL 1.]
1. = APOLOGETIC a. 1.
a. 1600. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., VIII. 505. Writings apologetical of her royal authority.
1640. Fuller, Abel Rediv., Bradford (1867), I. 219. A long apologetical oration of his own innocency.
1859. Jowett, Romans, II. 580. The former have a dogmatical, the latter an apologetical character.
2. = APOLOGETIC 2.
1634. R. H., Salerne Regim., Pref. 1. I thought fit to wave all Apologeticall expressions, of this Workes weakenesse.
1865. Lecky, Rational. (1878), II. 88. Persecution became languid … grew apologetical, timid, and evasive.
