a. [f. as prec. + -ICAL.]
1. Of or belonging to atheists.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 1315. Beastly cogitations and Athisticall discourses.
1666. Evelyn, Mem. (1857), II. 19. The public theatres … were abused to an atheistical liberty.
1718. J. Chamberlayne, Relig. Philos. (1730), Pref. Let., A great many Atheistical Books.
1830. Mackintosh, Eth. Philos., Wks. 1846, I. 75. The atheistical opinions of Hobbes.
2. = ATHEISTIC 2.
1588. Marprel. Epist. (1843), 42. Ignorant and atheistical dolts.
1692. Bentley, Boyle Lect., 6. In the mouths of atheistical men.
