a. [f. as prec. + -AL 1.] = prec.
1589. Nashe, Almond for Parrat, 15 b. Such a Chaos of common places no apothegmatical Lycosthenes euer conceited.
1603. Holland, Plutarch, 203 (R.). That apophthegmaticall and powerfull speech of theirs.
1837. Lytton, Athens, I. 393. The apothegmatical Hipparchus.