a. [f. as prec. + -ICAL.]

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  1.  = ATMOSPHERIC 1. arch. (Atmospherical air was so called at first to distinguish it from other gases also called air: see AIR sb. 2.)

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1664.  Power, Exp. Philos., II. 99. By Atmosphærical Air, I understand such as we constantly breathe and live in.

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1816.  Faraday, Exp. Res., i. 2. The atmospherical air being perfectly excluded.

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  2.  = ATMOSPHERIC 2.

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1666.  Boyle, in Phil. Trans., I. 182. The Extent of the Atmospherical Changes.

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1824.  Dick, Chr. Philos., 317. Hail, rain, snow, dew, and other atmospherical phenomena.

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  3.  = ATMOSPHERIC 3.

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1661.  Boyle, Spring of Air, I. iv. (1682), 11. There is much of the Atmospherical pressure—if I may so speak, taken off.

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1829.  T. Forster (title), Illustrations of the Atmospherical Origin of Epidemic Diseases.

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  4.  Subject to atmospheric influences. rare.

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1728.  Pope, Let. Swift, in Swift’s Wks. (1761), VIII. 85. If I lived in Ireland, I fear the wet climate would endanger … my humour, and health; I am so atmospherical a creature.

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