a. [f. next + -AL 1.] Like the Barmecide’s feast; imaginarily satisfying or sumptuous; unreal, illusory.
a. 1845. Hood, Turtles, xiv. Having thro’ one delighted sense, at least, Enjoy’d a sort of Barmecidal feast.
1845. Mozley, Blanco White, Ess. (1878), II. 115. To reason simply on the superficies is a Barmecidal proceeding.
