a. [f. as prec. + -ICAL.]
1. prop. Having reference to or connected with things automatic.
1665. Surv. Aff. Netherl., 178. Ships that (according to the Automatical proposal) could manage themselves.
2. = AUTOMATIC.
1586. Bright, Melanch., xiii. 66. Automaticall instruments.
1788. ‘A. Pasquin,’ Childr. Thespis (1792), 159. Automatical, heavy, dull, sombrous, half crazy.
1830. Edin. Encycl., II. 66/2. Automatical rope-dancers or tumblers.
