a. [f. as prec. + -AL 1.]
† 1. Logic. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a simple statement or proposition: cf. AXIOM 2. Obs.
1588. Fraunce, Lawiers Log., I. ii. 7. This is the first part of judgement in axioms, called axiomaticall, determining only truth and falsenes in propositions or axioms.
a. 1679. T. Goodwin, Wks. (1864), VIII. 403. An application axiomatical, that he is mine.
2. Of or relating to axioms, maxims, or admitted first principles.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 109 (T.). Hippocrates did wel to front his Axiomaticall Experiments, (his book of Aphorismes) with the grand Miscariages in the practise of most able Physitians.
a. 1751. Bolingbroke, Hum. Knowl., i. in Wks. 1841, III. 69 (R.). Materials of axiomatical, scientific, and, in a word, of absolute, real knowledge.
3. = AXIOMATIC 1.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. v. 731. Axiomatical Truths.
1765. Johnson, Pref. Shaks., Wks. 1816, II. 167. In his art there is no … axiomatical truth that regulates subordinate positions.
1869. Eng. Mech., 9 April, 62/1. Proving … that ‘two and two make four,’ or propositions equally as axiomatical.
4. = AXIOMATIC 3.
1738. Oldys, Ralegh, Life (1829), I. 22 (R.). A great air of that solid axiomatical vein which is observable in other productions of Ralegh’s muse.
