a. [f. as prec. + -AL 1.] = prec.

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1589.  Nashe, Almond for Parrat, 15 b. Such a Chaos of common places no apothegmatical Lycosthenes euer conceited.

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1603.  Holland, Plutarch, 203 (R.). That apophthegmaticall and powerfull speech of theirs.

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1837.  Lytton, Athens, I. 393. The apothegmatical Hipparchus.

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